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For my Physical Computing & Alt Interfaces class we had to use an Arduino (I have the latest Uno) to control LED(s) in a non-trivial way. I knew I wanted to make some kind of LED matrix, but didn’t know how big of one I could make on my half sized breadboard and limited number of pins. What I ended...

For my Software Development in Linux class we are making one large project over the course of the class and then packaging it up for distribution at the end (probably Debian, RPM, and AUR). This is a little bit of a paradigm shift for me personally, as for most of my projects distribution means pushing...

This section of the book is focused on copyrights and licensing issues facing FOSS projects. It starts at a high level explaining why a license is necessary and then works its way down to the details of choosing the correct license, dealing with copyright in teams and organizations, and finally how...

Everything is a Remix is a documentary that explores the source of creativity by looking at examples from our past: music, movies, computers, and more. It takes the stand that everything (even down to our biology) is the result of remix, a metaphor taken from music sampling that the documentary defines...

One question that often comes to my mind is how does geographical location (and the culture that comes with it) influence the band’s music and therefore my taste as well. So that’s why I decided to use this data to create a cartogram of my listening data.

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A joint post by Brendan Whitfield & Will Paul

Source code is often the most up to date documentation available, but while code is written in a linear fashion, the execution is a network of calls that often jump across files. Known as a function call graph, this data can help programmers quickly grasp...

Setting up a Ruby environment is deceptively simple. Easy to do, hard to maintain. The two major players, RVM and rbenv, offer more than the typical user needs or can possibly understand. Here I walk you through my setup using tools that do one thing and do it well. Coincidently all these tools that...

A collection of quotes from key players talking about the uprising response to anti-piracy legislation, from COICA to SOPA, from the edge of despair to the blackout.

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