Image via WikipediaAll those teenagers who are always messing with the hardware of any everyday gadget to robots, the host of TV show MythBusters, Grant Imahara gave few words of advice to support their obsession. Imhara attempted to help strengthen the instincts of Hardware Hackers; he began stating that “Anything that’s already broken is fair game! The worst-case scenario is it stays broken. The best-case scenario is you find out how it works or, even better, transform it into something else.”
Like all other kinds of hacking, Hardware hacking also gets your hands dirty and requires a sense of curiosity to know what and how things actually function. Imhara spoke on his show asserting that most of the hardware hackers gain that feeling of curiosity at a very early age; he said “I think it’s something you’re born with — the desire to know how things work inside.” He added “And you can tell your kid is a hardware hacker if none of the Hot Wheels cars have wheels, if the remote control gets take apart on a weekly basis.” “The best thing to do is give them more things to take apart so they can see how things work on the inside. Give them tools, and teach them how to use those tools,” Imhara added.
