Offering users the ability to customise their gadgets is becoming increasingly important. PhoneBloks, for example, lets users decide which phone accessories matter to them more. Taking this one step further are devices that ask the user to build them from scratch. Kits like the Bigshot Camera give the user an opportunity to build their own devices, thereby giving them a far greater understanding of how they all work.

The brainchild London's tech-meets-art studio, Technology Will Save Us, the DIY Gamer Kit not only lets users build their own handheld game console, but takes the DIY ethic one step further by letting them design the games they can play on it as well. Using an Arduino platform, open source code and an infra-red port that allows it to connect with another kit for multiplayer games, the kit opens up the creation process to the user, and blurs the line between user and developer.

The games themselves may not be as graphically impressive as the next Halo and the like, but the super lo-fi aesthetic certainly has a charm to it, and as we've seen with projects like the illustrative game level design app, Pixel Press, offering people the chance to create their own experiences is becoming increasingly popular.