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They call themselves makers, hackers, tinkerers and artists. In this week鈥檚 show Adam explores Maker Culture, a growing movement which applies a DIY ethos to technology.听 It promotes a hands-on approach to adapting, repairing and understanding consumer technology and its devotees believe that it鈥檚 time for consumers to take more control of the technology they buy and use. There鈥檚 a saying among makers: 鈥淚f you can鈥檛 open it, you don鈥檛 own it鈥�.

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We preview some of the makers who are taking part in the Machynlleth Mini Maker Faire which takes place at the Centre for Alternative Technology on 28th September. Organiser Dr. Emma Posey from Bloc, the creative technology network for Wales, gives Adam a brief history of the maker movement and Jo Hinchliffe explains that not even the sky鈥檚 the limit for makers 鈥� they鈥檝e already put home-made satellites into space!

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In Carmarthen, the Flowering Elbow project is creating a workshop space for people to experiment and make new things out of 鈥榰pcycled鈥� materials. Radio Wales reporter Jason Phelps pays them a visit to find out more and ends up as a maker himself, creating a box out of old floppy discs.

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Adam also talks to Ugo Vallauri from the Restart Project.听His mission is to combat 'throwaway' culture and encourage us to repair our electronic devices rather than replace them. He鈥檚 running a 鈥榬estart party鈥� at the Machynlleth Maker Faire where he and his team will help听get any devices people bring along up and running again.