Citizen Engineer: open source hardware comic and kits

Our pals at Adafruit Industries have launched a new series of kits that include a full color comic book/zine. The first volume of Citizen Engineer is all about SIM card hacking and has the parts to build your own SIM card reader/writer. Citizen Engineer (via MAKE:)

[#1 posted by Clemoh, July 9, 2009 10:36 AM]

This is awesome! Free laundry from now on!

[#2 posted by matt joyce, July 9, 2009 10:55 AM]

This is brilliant.

[#3 posted by openfly, July 9, 2009 3:33 PM]

Absolutely.

[#4 posted by jfrancis, July 9, 2009 6:05 PM]

What is it about the face in that blue cover image that makes me think of the Mona Lisa?

[#5 posted by dargaud, July 10, 2009 2:44 AM]

Any examples of what can be done with a SIM card reader ? I mean, besides copying the address book ?

[#6 posted by starbuckt, August 2, 2009 11:52 PM]

I bought my kit a few weeks ago, but just now got the time to put it together. It was a fun little project. I need to pick up a serial-to-usb adapter, but so far it works great. I can't wait to see what the next issue of Citizen Engineer is about.

@Dargaud
With this kit you can read/write SMS and phonebook data to the SIM card. Ostensibly, with the right software, you could attempt to clone a SIM card, but that's a little more involved.