Jingle Tales

We describe a project that we did in Mirzapur, India where we sent laptops made of Raspberry Pis to young women; that they could play with, reconfigure and use to explore their interests. The problem we encountered was how we could demonstrate the tactility and adaptability of these devices while having to compete with more ‘complete’ (read blackboxed) devices like phones and laptops. This recipe is a mix of one of these ideas, to be able to OWN your device by customizing the boot-up sound. The process would be an exploration of learning the device, a little bit of sound editing and learning to adapt python scripts. This recipe is a documentation of our way of trying to encourage the young women to customize their devices and play with the more technical aspects of it. This includes getting introduced to python, github, audacity and raspberry Pis.