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Owen Chilcoat hacking his tablet. “I am just messing around … trying to break it,” he says. Steve Henn /NPR

At r00tz, a camp that takes place each year during the Def Con convention in Las Vegas, children learn to pick locks, hack smart TVs and, most important, how to take apart and understand the technology that surrounds them. The scene inside the camp a couple weeks ago was a bit of a madhouse — controlled chaos. Little kids everywhere. Brendan Herman was trying to program a machine to draw pictures on ping-pong balls, wearing a tinfoil hat.

via Hacking Real Things Becomes Child’s Play At This Camp : All Tech Considered : NPR.