Adafruit in the Wall Street Journal (video) - A High Tech DIY Renaissance « adafruit industries blog
So true, especially the last line...
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Teacher: Why are you all sleeping? You need to know, if you don’t pay attention in class, you won’t get good grades, if your grades are not good enough you won’t go to university, and if you don’t go to university you can’t…You need to understand these principles of life!!!
Someone could take all your old phones and ship them off to China for recycling, or a good artist might come up with a clever re-use like making sheep. These are Jean-Luc Cornec's telephone sheep from the Museum of Telecommunication in Frankfurt. Meet Ptolemy Elrington, artist from United Kingdom and his insanely detailed sculptures made from old hubcaps.