Genderchangers is a community of women based in Amsterdam that share technological skills and grow knowledge by learing how to bits and bytes. They experience the openness of computer hardware, are enthusiast of open software, web programming and are essentially driven by the motivation of creating a space that opens the concept of prepackaged pieces of technology. Their aim is to exchange tools and communicate skills combining it with a practical do-it-yourself approach that de-mystifies the complexity of technology
13-14 january 2007
This weekend long workshop was full of creativity and a new experience to me. I opened a computer hardware, take apart all the pieces, inquired about processors, hard disks, data buses, and all the little components that at the end I reassembled together…
there was a soldering workshop as well -we assembled pieces of electronics…inputs/outputs…making sensor devices…
The nice part of the html language is that you can make it nicer if you use personalized style…it was my first attempt at dealing with web language…from scratch