Dial Up Your STEM Skills. Inexpensive Kit Lets You Build a Smartphone

[Guest]

A Kickstarter with a whopping $251,100 in the bucket is selling MAKERPhone, a DIY smartphone you can build and code for calls, listening to music and playing games like Space Invaders.

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[WildCard999]

This is pretty neat and would be a great gift for a techie!

 

[Giroro]

Not to split hairs, but this is closer to a early 2000's cell phone than a smart phone.

 

[PapaCrazy]

Pretty cool, I got a kick seeing the PCM5102 on the spec sheet. Pretty sure it was implemented in a sound card I've had. Nice to see a kit that includes soldering too.

 

[JOSHSKORN]

32-bit? Really, now? Ugh.

 

[bit_user]

I'd imagine you'd learn something by building one of these, but it seems a bit gimmicky to me. If you want to teach electronics, start with bread board, or one of those spring board kits (do they even make those any more?).

I guess for someone already familiar with the basics of digital electronics, this might be a next step in learning how to understand what they see when dismantling similar consumer electronics products.

Perhaps the best use for this might be to embed cell-based communications or control into another electronics project.

 

[Geef]

Get on youtube and search for the video of the guy making his own iPhone in China.

 

[g-unit1111]

I have to say this is a pretty cool idea and I think it's definitely one of the more interesting things to come out of the phone market in quite some time.