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This installment is called Making It Happen.

You know, if you want to make a contraption that wakes you up when the train comes into the station, you can get a little GPS module, you can connect it to a

microcontroller, and attach a speaker and when it gets to a certain GPS

location it will set off the alarm and wake you up so you can sleep

just right until you want to get to your station and even if you didn't know how to do any of that stuff

that's something that's like achievable in a weekend.

Maker culture, the do-it-yourself open source hacking things together movement, is no longer a subculture.

It's now a mainstream phenomenon.

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