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Cyborg jobs are here to stay
[ad_1] As a computer science professor, I’m often asked by parents how they can prepare their children for jobs that haven’t been invented yet. I call them cyborg jobs, inspired by the 2010 Wired article Clive Thompson on the Cyborg Advantage. Cyborg jobs combine tech-savvy humans with technology in all its forms to do more…
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How to build an open hardware amplifier in 5 steps
[ad_1] ElectroSmash just released an open hardware guitar amplifier called the 1Wamp. Designed as a small and portable 1 watt amplifier loaded with all the features of big amps, the project was fully developed using only open source tools—like KiCAD, a design suite to create schematics and layouts in any platform. Photo by Ray Rodriguez, CC BY-SA 4.0…
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How to build an open hardware guitar amplifier in 5 steps
[ad_1] ElectroSmash just released an open hardware guitar amplifier called the 1Wamp. Designed as a small and portable 1 watt amplifier loaded with all the features of big amps, the project was fully developed using only open source tools—like KiCAD, a design suite to create schematics and layouts in any platform. Photo by Ray Rodriguez, CC BY-SA 4.0…
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Getting started with webcams on Linux using QtCAM
[ad_1] In this article, I’ll explain how to get started with QtCAM, open source Linux webcam software. QtCAM has more than 10 image control settings, displaying frame rate achieved, color space switching, and extension settings. With these features and its user-friendly interface, QtCAM might be the right choice for your Linux webcam software needs. QtCAM source…
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5 steps on the road to engaging open source communities
[ad_1] Atlassian, parent company of popular chat service HipChat, started in 2002 with just two people. Thirteen years later, there are more than 1,300 of us spread around the world. That kind of growth forced the need for us to organize our open source efforts around a single point of contact, establish a rhythm in the…
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One man's trash is another man's Linux computer
[ad_1] The year was 2003. I was an underpaid accountant-turned-IT-professional, and father to two children under the age of four. The idea of using Linux was intriguing, but it wasn’t until I had a chance to experience it while taking a class on Long Island for work that I was fired up enough to try it out.…
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The evolution of the open organization
[ad_1] Reading Jim Whitehurst’s The Open Organization, you can hear the voice of a leader on a mission. Achieving a well-described personal transformation to become the Red Hat CEO, Whitehurst chronicles his leadership journey of the last few years, increasingly believing that the “open organization model” he encountered (and then further developed with other Red…
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Hacking your Linux computer for a better listening experience
[ad_1] In this article, I am going to focus on the hardware, software, and configuration issues that we Linux laptop users must confront in order to really enjoy that wonderful digital music on our hard drives. Some background Let’s say you have a laptop running a late-model Linux distribution (Fedora, Ubuntu, openSUSE, Arch Linux, Linux…
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DigiVita uses Blender to teach girls to code
[ad_1] The field of computer graphics has continued to prove itself as fertile ground for getting kids interested in code and technology. It isn’t just about the extremely gratifying feeling of creating cool-looking visuals on a computer. Since so many digital content creation programs (especially open source ones like Blender) feature built-in scripting support, it’s…
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Getting started with documentation, time management, and more OpenStack news
[ad_1] Interested in keeping track of what is happening in the open source cloud? Opensource.com is your source for news in OpenStack, the open source cloud infrastructure project. read more [ad_2] Source link