Interested in learning about the inner workings of a modern cell phone and perhaps building one yourself? Look no further than MAKERphone, the educational DIY mobile phone that you build and code yourself. Yes, you read that correctly. This kit allows you to fashion a fully functional mobile phone capable of making calls, running cat videos on repeat and playing basic games like Space Invaders, Pong or Snake. As you might have already guessed, this is not a fully-fledged smartphone capable of connecting all your Faceplaces to your Mysites. But in addition to not having to worry about your identity getting hacked, you’ll learn about resistors, basic electronics, soldering, smartphone operations, coding, programming languages and a whole host of other marketable skills as you make the leap from consumer to creator. MAKERphone makes it easy to up your personal knowledge game while also cutting off Big Brother at the knees.
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