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Siri Becomes A Home Automation Master With The Help Of Raspberry Pi
With home automation being all the rage these days, it was only a matter of time before Siri got her little, occasionally judgmental claws into the action. All it took was YouTube user Elvis Impersonator, a Raspberry Pi and enough trust in Siri’s goodness to believe she won’t devolve into a Hal 9000 wannabe.
Now You Can Back The Death Star Build On Kickstarter
So the US Government foolishly decided against building a Death Star last year. No matter, we the people are savvier than we look. That’s why someone in the UK decided to get the build started with a Kickstarter project for an open-source Death Star.
Why Does Dell’s Ubuntu XPS 13 Cost More Than The Windows Version?
Dell’s Ubuntu-powered XPS 13, codenamed Project Sputnik, started life as an internal R&D project. Now it has grown up and is available to buy online in North America — but why does it cost more than a Windows equivalent?
Open-Source Book Scanner Uses A Household Vacuum To Turn The Page
In an effort to streamline the process of scanning hundreds of millions of titles, Google Books engineer Dany Qumsiyeh has designed a $US1500 automated scanner from sheet metal, dissected electronics, and a household vacuum. It can chew through a 1000-page odyssey in about 90 minutes, and you’re welcome to build your own since Qumsiyeh has made his Linear Book Scanner open source.
HP’s Open Source WebOS Code Has Arrived. Will Anyone Actually Use It?
There’s almost no reason for any normal person to get excited about the beta release of open source WebOS, but for those of us who still can’t come to grips with the fact that Palm’s stunted mobile OS was an abject failure, there’s still a faint beacon of light to soothe the soul.
Disney Tween Sitcom Insults Open-Source Software For No Reason
Disney, the pre-teen brainwash buzz mill and Miley Cyrus clone incubator, now seems to be on a new, stranger mission: anti open-source propaganda. Why is its latest sitcom suggesting that to use open source is to make a dangerous “rookie mistake”?
The Tablet Linux Lovers Have Been Waiting For
While most people just want their devices to work so that they can do stuff, some people love tinkering with operating systems. Until now, the tablet sector’s been ripe for hacking, but there hasn’t been anything that’s truly open-source and easy to fiddle with from the get-go. This Spark tablet puts that straight.
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