Slums like Brahmpuri are full of garish advertisements for makeshift computer-training colleges and English schools.
Samsung's been walking the line for a while as well, rolling out enterprise features like Knox security for its consumer handsets, along with accessories like DeX, designed to convert the phones into makeshift desktop computers.
"This was my way of working for music without being in the music business," said Mr. Gomelsky, 79, sitting at a makeshift console cluttered with computer monitors, cables, books, cassettes and papers.
In the 1990s, instead of downloading images on to his computer, he visited makeshift galleries in empty hairdressing salons and warehouses, and succeeded in unearthing possibly the most thrilling, certainly the most media-friendly, art Britain has ever produced.
On protests you have started to see geeky men wandering around with a GoPro camera on a bike helmet, linked to a computer and a makeshift aerial, effectively live-streaming the action to niche blogs.
A half-dozen people were sitting at computers in a makeshift command center.
To get round government shutdowns of internet and mobile-phone networks, resourceful dissidents have used such makeshift antennae to link their computers and handsets to more orthodox transmission equipment in neighbouring countries.Technologies that transmit data under the noses of repressive authorities in this way are spreading like wildfire among pro-democracy groups, says Mr Moss.
You can't read poetry off a computer screen!" Although some makeshift libraries, like Ms. Hale's staircase and Ms. Bloomer's dining room table, are inventions of accident or necessity, some are by design.
With patients leaving their AAC systems at home, and little funding available to provide AAC systems in hospital, some nurses crafted makeshift picture boards using the ward computer, Internet, printer, and laminator.
Mr. Clifton dispatched 15 editors with a handful of technicians and page designers and a load of computers to set up a makeshift newsroom in The Beacon Journal office.
Credit: ©UNICEF/NYHQ2010-0138/Roger LeMoyne January 28 - UNICEF staff work at computers during the night, in makeshift offices set up at the MINUSTAH base near the airport in Port-au-Prince, the capital.
