I was so excited when I stumbled across this earlier today on the Make Magazine Feed and then again later on Boing Boing.  The guys over at Adafruit Industries have launched a new series that includes a comic and a kit called Citizen Engineer.  Volume One deals with Sim Card Hacking and the video, posted below is totally cool.

For those of you following along or have read snippits of Moxyland, a book I’m reading for Angry Robot, know that this tends to go right along with the whole cyberpunk theme that tends to be following me around lately.  Maybe?  Why Not.  I bring this up because in Moxyland, I won’t review it here just a premise, the entire society is run on cell phones.  The cash is transfered via cell, the police enforcement is done via cell, based on the condition of your sim you can be allowed access into certain areas of the city or be shut out into the slums, even advertisers use signals as you walk by billboards to send stuff to your cell targeted to you.  Quite fascinating actually.

Needless to say when this popped up today I got really excited and ordered the mag and subscribed to the feed instantly.  I can’t wait to see what they come up with for their next installment.  Anywho, check out the video, check out the comic, get the kit.  It just looks way too fun….

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Citizen_Engineer from citizen engineer on Vimeo.