*Boy, we got ourselves some frayed-live-wire Favela Chic honchos here. Way to go, Regine.
http://www.we-make-money-not-art.com/archives/2011/07/gambiologia.php
"Gambiarra is the Brazilian practice of makeshifts, the art of resorting to quirky and smart improvisation in order to repair what doesn't work or to create what you need with what you have at your disposal. Gambiologia is the 'science' that studies this form of creative improvisation and celebrates it by combining it with electronic-digital techniques.
"Gambiologia is also the name of a collective of artists - Fred Paulino, Lucas Mafra and Paulo Henrique 'Ganso Pessoa' - who mix this art of improvisation with DIY culture & technology to develop electronic artifacts..."
(((Check out the links on the site of this Brazilian geek collective. Man, there used to be a day when, if you lived on some distant continent, you didn't know anybody.)))
Links:
Adafruit Industries
Arduino
BeeMP3
Evil Mad Science
GetLoFi
Graffiti Research Lab
Graffiti Research Lab Brasil
Lucas Mafra
Make Magazine
Procurado.org
Saber Eletrônica
Tagtool.org
There, I Fixed It
ThingM
ThinkGeek
*"Less Yammering, More Hammering"
