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be worth �500,000. That's it from me. It is now time

Connect plugged 78 to socket 35. It It turns out I have not flooded in.

Anyway, this week on Click we get to grips with technology kits. From

pies to boards to X two Y. Can anyone really DIY? And to doubt

that news 3 D television set in Europe television room. If what you

mean you do not have one? Which it in with the technology that might

be about to check out. All that, plus the latest

technology news, your thoughts on online piracy and you and your

friends face to face online. We will show you how to do this.

Welcome to Click. If a job is worth doing, it is worth doing yourself.

At least according to people who own more than one palatal. But what

about those who swap circular saws for circuit boards? Is it possible

to do technology DIY? Technology companies generally

encourage us to be consumers, not customise us. They are less than

keen for us to explore if what is inside our gizmos. It is not likely

can just put them back together when they stop working. Modern kit

is complicated. Unless you are already pretty hot on electronics.

It is difficult to know where to start. Enter the maker community,

who subscribe to the following philosophy. If you do not have it,

make it, and if you do not know how to make it, try it at home. Imagine

you have taken the plunge and you have ordered a mobile phone charger

kit. Inside this bag is a collection of components which, on

their own, look intimidating. But with a soldering iron and website

of instructions, it should take me about an hour to put together.

Actually, this is going to take a lot longer. It is harder than I

thought. I am going to take his home. To be honest, I'm quite

looking forward to it. If anybody has made making a way of life, it

is this man, who graduated from selling LEDs in his spare time to

selling around 24,000 kits and components Priya through his

website. His place is like a pick and mix of bits and bobs. You used

to do it with a lot of hobbyists. They were into electronics. We are

seeing a lot more people coming fresh into it. We had one mother

get in touch who actually wanted to buy something that would turn of

any television. It was so she could turn off the television whenever

she wanted. The mode of charging Kidd is designed by a specific

company, but the designers open source. It can be built by anyone,

as long as they give credit. Benn pays a small licensing fee. This

collaborative spirit that seems to permeate the maker movement has

given rise to locations around the world. It is useful if you do not

have it at home. Nottingham's had space is one such community. They

tinker together. It is a maker's paradise. A freezing cold space

full of warm-hearted advice and no shortage of tea or equipment. For

the safety-conscious, who might not be up with laser cutters, common

sense is welcomed here. If you are not sure how to use it, do not.

Until you learn from someone who does. Help is always at hand at

this 24-hour tweed station. It does not matter if you do not know

everything. Do not put obstacles in your way that tell you, before I

can make an electronics thing I have to learn all of electronics.

Or before I programme something, I have to know everything about

computers. It is not true. Most people start out by knowing nothing

about what they are doing. But they become more adept at doing it. That

is what this is for. Matt is an electrical engineer with three

projects on the go. This is a shower timer that monitors how long

you're under. Tested here with the ubiquitous cup of tea. He can

actually build circuit boards himself. But here he is using one

as a quick way to see if something works. It is basically the name for

both the board and the software that runs it. It is helpful to

think it as building blocks for a DIY computing. A way to connect

software programming with hardware. He this is a little computer and I

use it to programme it. I just do some power to make it work.

piece of dr White take could be complete without a nod to the

runaway success of the raspberry pie. It is a 25 pound micro

computer that lets you connect everything to everything else. And

the release of a new, cheaper model means there's a lot of making going

on. It could communicate through the network into a motor. This sort

of thing so much easier to do now. We are trying to get that smooth

transition from day one. One that ends like it did for me in

professional engineering. Google is helping to get more

people interested in doing it themselves. It is your ability to

do this. Eric Schmidt was on hand to oversee a $1 million donation as

part of its programme to get more children interested in hacking.

That is how you get Google engineers, after all. Pro Gummer's

lot to fiddle with their computers. The average person doesn't. --

programmers love. The average person just wanted to work. The job

is to make the impossible so simple and trivial that you do not think

about it. That is the great challenge. Back to my challenge. At

a climate of charging project home to see if I had a hope of making

something functional. I found instructions on the internet and

watch the videos on how to solder. It took longer than I thought. It

took three hours, but I found it enjoyable. While building the

device, I unexpectedly developed a knowledge of each component and its

functions. It is a side-effect of making stuff, which in turn did

sink deeper understanding of the kit. I am a new member of the maker

community. I can see the attraction, especially when it feels this could

to build something electronic that actually works.

Eagerly encouraging the self-made tech revolution. Next up, he looked

at this week's tech news. Threats by the hacking connective

anonymous to block access to President Obama's State of the

Union address proved futile. If you do want that the President and

Congress would face an army. But the speech went ahead unimpeded.

The President called on Congress to bolster the nation's cyber defences.

American Express is monarch icing Twitter directly. Using a specific

hash added, customers will be able to order specific products. It

generates a confirmation e-mail, along with a 15-minute wander to

confirm the purchase was yours. And finally, you might remember

that we recently reported on a kick-start a project to build a

real-life Jetstar. It got over $350,000 in a week. A new rebel

alliance is also using the card Funding Service to fight back.

They're asking for investment for excellent fighters. Complete with

iPhone integration. So far, it is a little short of its $11 million

target. But if it goes planned, the next one will be a smuggling vessel

for 13 million Standard credits. A couple of weeks ago we reported

on the new file storage site Medard. It has been set up by this chap.

Kim Dotcom. His previous site, Megaupload, has been accused of

allowing people to swap a pirated movies and music. It had been shut

down by the authorities. This prompted you to get in touch with

us about these so-called cyber sides and about online movies and

music in general. Pretty much none of your responses came out in

defence of copyright owners. One person thinks that internet piracy

simply gives many people a free alternative to a music industry

that is greedy. Selling DVDs and CDs at 1,000 % mark up. Music and

film companies, he said, had to learn that times have changed. Pop

stars have to do it for the love of the music, not for being super-rich.

Talking of which, for another person said that he wishes his

customers would continue to pay him for his individual and creative

each time they turn on a light or the central heating. He asks why

any other profession should expect to get paid endlessly for their

creations. It sounds like you would be in favour of artists phoning

money under a new releases and then after a while giving them away or

allowing them to be shared. An interesting idea.

Another prison makes a similar point. After he has bought a book,

he says he would read it and share it with friends. He would then take

it to a sale and sell it on for 30p. He asks if his house is about to be

raided by a heavily armed Swat team for a breach of copyright. I think

you are safe. If you are making millions of copies of your book and

distributing them for nothing, it might be worth it checking out your

front lawn. It was not that long ago - three

years in fact - that we were all been told a news 3 -- TV revolution

was coming. If your television did not look like this, you were living

in the wrong century. 3D cinema had been tried at least three times in

the last 100 years and it had failed to catch on every time. Now,

things will be different, we were told. Because 3D was coming to the

home as well. How is that working out for everyone? Is there anything

to see? In the winter of 2010, 3D was the

buzzword. Tens of thousands of people from around the world,

mostly journalists, analysts and business people, came to the

International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. It is an annual

event but that you felt special because of a multi-million dollar

promotional campaign by television makers that had really started

months earlier. Looking back, it was a little bit too good to be

true. Three D was the most over marketed television feature you

could imagine. Manufacturers' got behind it whole hog. Avatar.

Everyone was talking about it. And the actual experience of going in

and see in 3D movies - avatar is the exception - was disappointed --

disappointing. Now we have a backlash. It is hard to believe the

TV industry got it so wrong. Look around. What percentage of your

friends watch 3D at home on a regular basis? Was this a case of

manufacturers deliberately dressing up a sideline feature into a fully-

fledged visual revolution? I don't think so. I think they had a

genuine technology advancement. LCD displays. And the conductors that

went inside were fast enough to be used for 3D content. And in the

cinema, there was a move towards 3D. James Cameron was one of the people

developing many 3D films like avatar. But the issue was not...

There was not enough content for the television market and the

television consumers. Even some 3D satellite services ended because

they were not enough people subscribing.

It is estimated that less than 120,000 homes in the UK are

watching 3D television channels at any given moment. If you wish it is

so low that the audience tracking companies cannot provide

consistently accurate figures -- the viewing numbers. That makes

advertisers are wary of running commercials, which means original

3D programming is difficult to finance. At the cinema, the

situation is not nearly as bad. Although market share for 3D movies

in America has dropped to by one percentage point per year since the

release of avatar. But some of the biggest movies like Skyfall were

never released in 3D. That in turn blunts of the appeal of building up

any kind of personal 3D Blu-ray collection. The latest launch of 3D

in the home a couple of years ago was clearly not well thought out

even at the simplest level. Much of the content was animation and

family movies aimed at children. Yet the glasses that were required

to seek that content came in only one size - adult. No wonder

families found the entire experience challenging. There were

barriers were getting even one person in the household to watch 3D.

One of the main things they could have done better is to first of all

get the last as things correct and make the glasses, with the

television. If you sell a 3D TV, you should sell the glasses. If you

cannot do that for a reasonable price, you should not be selling a

3D TV. To this day, there is confusion about the different types

of 3D glasses that work in different ways depending on your

television set. With a less than impressive sales record, you would

think the electronics companies would have given up 13 D. Not so,

apparent although with so little of Tate and so little content

available, they must be incredibly frustrated. -- so little uptake.

Not frustrated but more realistic. We are realistic that we will not

be able to change people overnight. These things take time. How long

did it take high-definition to get into every home? These things will

not be sped up. We are not going to be able to change people any faster

by talking about it any louder. recent trade shows, the three

designers are mostly gone. That does not mean 3D is a forgotten

technology. One company claims it has cracked the perennial problem

require viewers to stand dead centre in front of the screen. Now

you can stand at any angle and get a good but not perfect result.

Several other companies are working on glasses Free technology as well,

especially the process of turning to the imagery into 3D. That is

because everyone in the industry realises that creating more content

is king. It will take many more avatars and films like The Hobbit

to make 3D worthwhile. It turns out that us Britons and

not a particularly talkative bunch. According to statistics, we

referred to texting each other rather than pick up the phone and

chat. As mobile broadband speeds increase, will the odds to open the

favour of the Dio Cordon? If that is something you have always wanted

to try, we have a good suggestion to start this week's Webscape.

There are plenty of greater video conferencing applications of the

market but not many that led to connect with up to 12 friends in HD

completely free. This is impressively quick and painless to

set up, giving you the options to connect through Facebook as well as

downloads for Macintosh, PC, Android and ILS applications as

well. -- iOS. This is not a new service. There are already millions

of users. However, they have just launched a new update that allows

you to connect up to four people over mobile. As well as live chat,

there is a nice video message feature that lets you e-mail video

clips or put them on YouTube with no download or registration needed

for people to view your message. There are a growing number of

interesting ways to look for work online. This is the perfect example,

connecting people with time to spare for anyone who needs

something done. The network caught the attention of the UK press

around the time of the Olympics in London as people were trading for

things like queue at the Olympics for me and I will pay you �30.

It is quick and easy to sign up and start advertising with a small

commission on transactions completed through the website. You

can also a trade directly in cash with no fees although obviously you

have to be very careful about who you meet for this and to make sure

it is somewhere public and busy. Other common what jobs include

waiting in for a parcel delivery or putting together flat-pack

furniture. You can also sell anything from books and vegetables

to tutoring services and accountancy. The addition of an

iPhone act and other formats coming soon it means that TPS can help you

find something local if a job needs doing quickly. -- GPS.

Another way to make money with consumer technology is this free

app for iPhone that is so simple it almost hurts. Up load your shots.

They are reviewed by your Piers. They go on sale to the public in a

photographic gallery to be made into print out posters for anyone

to hang in their home. Unlike websites that list uses

photos for sale is as stop images, this allows people to make money

from selling photos. And print products, which opens the market up.

They have worked hard to build a strong community feeling a bit like

se. It is a nice way to do it but I would not get too excited about

quitting your day job. Like other apps, it also suffers from stingy

cups syndrome. This is more for hobbyists wanting to make a few

Populist losing music service Spotify has landed on Windows 8

this week, giving you access to your account on the move with

windows. -- popular streaming music service.

And a brand new Apple released this week taking inspiration from guitar

hero is designed to be played with a real guitar. As you play notes on

an acoustic or electric guitar, your computer's microphone picks up

the sound and uses it to control the game. This is free to play for

five minutes per day and you can make up to one our free play if you

get other people to sign up and so on. For unlimited play, you can pay

$9.99 per month subscription, which seems expensive for an internet

game but when you consider the cost of guitar tuition, it becomes more

Thank you. And if you have any suggestions for Webscape, sent us