I went to a workshop where David Mellis provided the components and walked everyone through constructing this (he works in the MIT Media Lab, so the laser cut w

I went to a workshop where David Mellis provided the components and walked everyone through constructing this (he works in the MIT Media Lab, so the laser cut wood was also done using their equipment). The interesting thing was that several other people at the workshop were very gung-ho about how building their own phone in this way makes them in some way free from oppressive phone manufacturers. This didn't really strike me as quite correct given this is mostly just assembling parts from similar manufacturers.