I'm a hacker, and that's a good thing

A hacker is not a cracker

When I tell people that I am a 'hacker,' they usually react with a dose of fear. No, it doesn't mean that I break into people's computers, purposely engaging in criminal activities. I adopt and play with technology to create new things, not to destroy them. The kind of hacker you should fear is a cracker, a cyber criminal, a black hat hacker. I'm a white hat hacker.

A hacker takes the freedom to use, learn and modify technologies in ways that were not intended. We look at the world as a set of building blocks, take them apart, and put them back together with changes wherever we need them.

And I'm sure you are a hacker as well, it's a human nature.

Some of my hacks

Here's some of my ongoing hacking projects:

• My electric kart
• My biochemical lab
• My analog binary clock
• A Lego steam engine