[ad_1] Earlier this year, I wrote an article about how to use the Raspberry Pi to create a music light show using an open source project called LightShowPi. My little Christmas tree light show was popular enough that I was invited to demo it for a group of middle school kids in North Carolina. Which…

[ad_1] It may be a relatively niche market, but not all video editing is done in post production. There are use cases for live, on-the-fly video editing and basic compositing. You’ve seen it done yourself, whether you realize it or not—news broadcasts, live webcasts, and live TV events usually use multiple-camera setups controlled by one central…

[ad_1] It may be a relatively niche market, but not all video editing is done in post production. There are use cases for live, on-the-fly video editing and basic compositing. You’ve seen it done yourself, whether you realize it or not—news broadcasts, live webcasts, and live TV events usually use multiple-camera setups controlled by one central…

[ad_1] The best couples complement each other, and each member of the couple contributes unique and irreplaceable parts to the whole. But some couples are very odd. Such is the case with our best couple this year: the tar and ssh commands. Wait—what?! Yup, that’s right, the tar and ssh commands work together in interesting…

[ad_1] Recently, I read Seth Godin’s book Poke the Box: When Was the Last Time You Did Something for the First Time?. It’s a short book, but it’s filled with anecdotes about people who have “poked the box,” which is to say they have taken a risk. Godin uses the metaphor of a box to…

[ad_1] Do you think music software is only the domain of expensive proprietary software? Think again. There are literally hundreds of applications out there designed by, and for, those with a musical bent. Music projects, including many projects specifically for the Linux operating system, flourish in the open source community as musicians take to coding to…

[ad_1] A few of weeks ago I got a email from a friend who was attending an education technology conference. In the note he referenced PyGaze, an open source project I might be interested in. I have a deep interest in educational psychology, and so I was fascinated by what I read about PyGaze—an open…

[ad_1] Open source is awesome, and there are many reasons why you might consider consuming, publishing, collaborating on, or supporting open source. Here are a few of them: 1. Microeconomic motivations Open source is in your best interest, whether you’re an individual, a corporation, a small business, a non-profit, or a government agency. Shift developers…

[ad_1] Drupal, one of the largest open source projects in the world, is a content management system and application framework that powers millions of websites, web services, and mobile applications. Individuals and organizations in every sector use Drupal for everything from simple blogs and micro-sites, to complex intranets and private internal applications, to some of…

[ad_1] This article details the circumstances behind my switch away from proprietary operating systems and my switch to Linux. Like many, I switched out of frustration with other operating systems and not directly because of Linux’s open source model. I developed my passion for that after the switch was made. The breaking point It was August…