The GoGo board provides a simple interface for computers to interact with their surrounding environments. Projects using the GoGo board include various sensing and control applications, games, and environmental sensing. It allows students to be engaged in the design and implementation of solutions to a problem by augmenting locally found, low-cost materials with digital technology. The GoGo board has been designed and used in schools in S�o Paulo, and a network of teachers, students, and other users of the GoGo board is being created. The simplicity of the GoGo board design opens up possibilities for learners to create or modify the board for their particular needs. The research goal is to study the factors, both technical and social, needed to support communities of not-so-technical people to participate in the process of designing the tools that they want.