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Today we have a guest post from Aidan Chopra, friend of SparkFun and dad extraordinaire. Aidan built an absolutely brilliant Grumman F4F-4 costume for his son.

High-powered LEDs, an audio kit from Moog and more. Check out the new stuff for this week.

When developers discuss who the world’s top programmer is, these names tend to come up a lot

Google Glass-style small screen runs Android, shows you what your rifle sees.

At $70, this 8-port GigE switch isn’t a steal. But it’s so sleek and cool!

World wealth has reached a record $263 trillion but is concentrated in fewer hands. The richest 1 percent have accumulated more wealth, and own almost 50 percent of it, which could trigger recession, according to a new report by Credit Suisse.

Newcomers to python-ideas occasionally make reference to the idea of “Python 4000” when proposing backwards incompatible changes that don’t offer a clear migration path from currently legal Python 3 code. After all, we allowed that kind of change for Python 3.0, so why wouldn’t we allow it for Python 4.0?  

Lulu.com helped define modern publish-on-demand services.  

Community is an overloaded word, it can mean anything. Community can mean just people who use your product. Or maybe it’s those who build your product, or maybe it’s the business partners who are using it. Or maybe it’s those who are blogging about it.

Storms – Colores (Para Lole Pt. 2) Official Video from Martin Allais on Vimeo.

Cooking Hacks has released new industrial protocol modules and API that allow sensor information from industrial devices to connect to the Cloud. The new modules support the most widely used industrial communication network protocols such as RS-485, RS-232, CAN Bus, and Modbus, used for process or industrial automation, building automation, military and automobile applications, for … Leggi tutto

Top-end AWD version blasts from zero to 60 mph in 3.2 seconds.

Pico projector can display a 50-inch picture, and the laptop has an 800-part hinge.

Netflix’s payments to Verizon for a direct connection to its network didn’t result in immediate improvements for the companies’ joint subscribers, but they’re finally paying off with better video performance. Verizon FiOS actually topped all other major ISPs in Netflix performance in September with an average stream rate of 3.17Mbps, Netflix said today.

A fork of TrueCrypt’s code, VeraCrypt strengthens the open source encryption software’s transformation process and addresses other weaknesses.

I own three Raspberry Pi’s (two B’s and one B+) and many people I know also own one or more Pis. All those Pi add up and now the Raspberry Pi Foundation says that it has sold 3.8 million units.

Lascar launched a Linux-based DAQ system with a 4.3-inch capacitive touchscreen, an ARM9-based Freescale i.MX283 SoC, and a free GUI program.

In the past, I’ve covered various astronomy packages that help you explore the universe of deep space. But, space starts a lot closer to home. It actually begins a few hundred miles above your head. There are lots of things in orbit right above you. In this article, I look at one of the tools … Leggi tutto

The KDE community announced the release of KDE Frameworks 5.3.0 today. The release brings a number of fixes and enhancements atop KDE 5 released exactly 3 months back.

‘Music makes the people come together’ Madonna once sang. But can Steam’s new music player feature mix the bourgeoisie and the rebel as well?

Germany might become an example for other cities that are looking to shed their dependency on proprietary solutions, such as Windows. After Munich, which has already made the move to Linux, Hamburg could be the next big city in Germany to do the same thing.  

While some having been thinking that Fedora developers might enable the Btrfs file-system by default in Fedora 22, that doesn’t appear to be the case. Fedora is unlikely to see Btrfs by default until at least Fedora 23. OpenSUSE 13.2 Beta 1 is using Btrfs by default as the first major tier-one Linux distribution using … Leggi tutto

When you’re dealing with audio files, you’ll run into a few problems every so soften. This is especially true with voice recordings and audio that was converted to a digital format from a cassette tape or a vinyl record.

So the past week was fairly calm, and so I have no qualms about releasing 3.17 on the normal schedule (as opposed to the optimistic “maybe I can release it one week early” schedule that was not to be). However, I now have travel coming up – something I hoped to avoid when I was … Leggi tutto

Windows 10’s most noticeable feature blends Microsoft’s past and present.

Chrome’s usage share surged in September, with Google’s browser hitting new highs on both mobile platforms and on the PC. At the same time, Windows 8.x’s share declined, with a shift in usage back to Windows 7.  

A new Nexus phone is coming out soon. We’ve seen rumors, reports, mockups, and everything else flying around about the upcoming 5.9-inch device from Motorola.

You could spend a lot more on joysticks than the minuscule $463 I dropped on the HOTAS Warthog.  

A film by Joshua Mulligan debuting online exclusively in Cartoon Brew’s 5th annual Student Animation Festival. VISIT Joshua’s website: Joshuatadmulligan.com To learn more about the production of this film, visit: cartoonbrew.com/brewtv/journeyoftwo-103619.html Journey of Two from Joshua Mulligan on Vimeo.

 rustadmedia.com Please watch in HD with good speakers for the optimal experience. You can watch it in 4K here: youtube.com/watch?v=Scxs7L0vhZ4 This is a time-lapse video resulting from a 15,000 km (almost 10,000 miles) long road trip and tens of thousands of images taken along the way over the last 5 months. The journey has covered … Leggi tutto

Théo de Blic welcomes you to a unique experience: The Sounds of Paragliding. Listen to nature’s harmony while the young pilot rhythms the melody with aerobatic paragliding. Sounds of Paragliding from shams on Vimeo.

Linux users secretly want a distro that treats them like Apple treats Mac OS X users.

Summary of pcDuino Acadia specs Specifications listed for the pcDuino Acadia 1 include: Processor — Freescale i.MX6 Quad (4x Cortex-A9 cores @ up to 1.2GHz); Vivante GC2000 with OpenGL/ES 2.x, OpenCL EP, and OpenVG 1.1 acceleration Memory/storage: 1GB DRAM 8GB eMMC flash 2x microSD slots for up to 128GB SATA host socket Display/camera: HDMI 1.4 … Leggi tutto

ARM has announced an mbed device platform to promote development on Internet of Things (IoT) devices. Called the ARM mbed™ IoT Device Platform, it includes the mbed OS, a free operating system for ARM Cortex®-M processor-based devices, and mbed Device Server, designed to “provides the required server-side technologies to connect and manage devices in a … Leggi tutto

Angry IP scanner is free and open-source (IP and port scanner) tool released under GPLv2 license. It scans the network and detect attached details of those devices that are connected to the router. It displays details like IP address, Port address, MAC address, NetBIOS information and so on.

openHAB is a software for integrating different home automation systems and technologies into one single solution that allows over-arching automation rules and that offers uniform user interfaces. This means openHAB is designed to be absolutely vendor-neutral as well as hardware/protocol-agnostic can run on any device that is capable of running a JVM (Linux, Mac, Windows) … Leggi tutto

A few years ago, I became a dog owner for the first time. It was really hard leaving for work and having Cody in the kennel alone all day. I had a webcam on him, but I couldn’t watch it all day long. What if he was in some kind of distress? What if there … Leggi tutto

You can use Audacity to: Record live audio. Convert tapes and records into digital recordings or CDs. Edit Ogg Vorbis, MP3, WAV or AIFF sound files. Cut, copy, splice or mix sounds together. Change the speed or pitch of a recording. And more! See the complete list of features.

Gear VR, Samsung’s recently announced hardware effort that turns the upcoming Galaxy Note 4 smartphone into a VR headset using a holster powered by Rift maker Oculus.

Quagga is an open source routing software suite that can be used to turn your Linux box into a fully-fledged router that supports major routing protocols like RIP, OSPF, BGP or ISIS router. It has full provisions for IPv4 and IPv6, and supports route/prefix filtering.

Canonical has released the final beta of Ubuntu 14.10 and its spins.

Princeton researcher and professor Stephen Chou is not new to improving technology with his work using nanotechnology. This time around, Professor Chou is working on the LED tech that we use for our smartphones. This research is seeing dramatic improvements not only in the LEDs themselves, but in the overall display, which could lead to … Leggi tutto

Thanks to two different sources familiar with Google’s plans, we have learned that the HTC Nexus 9 will be unveiled on either October 15th or the 16th While Android L and new Nexus hardware will be shown off in mid-October, the final version of Android L won’t officially be available until November 1st, according to our … Leggi tutto

Newcomers to python-ideas occasionally make reference to the idea of “Python 4000” when proposing backwards incompatible changes that don’t offer a clear migration path from currently legal Python 3 code. After all, we allowed that kind of change for Python 3.0, so why wouldn’t we allow it for Python 4.0?

Sweden-based Hectronic gives you a choice of two SKUs: one using a SoC with a faster clock rate, but with higher power consumption and a commercial operating temperature range, or another with a slower clock, but lower power draw and an industrial -40 to 85°C range: GX-411GA — 4x x86 cores @ 1.1GHz with 15W … Leggi tutto

Inforce Computing unveiled an Android-ready Pico-ITX “IFC6540″ SBC that extends Qualcomm’s quad-core 2.5GHz Snapdragon 805 SoC with wireless, GPS, and more. Processor: Qualcomm Snapdragon 805 4X Krait 450 cores @ 2.5GHz; 2MB L2 cache Adreno 420 GPU @ 500MHz Hexagon QDSP6 V5A (600MHz) 2x ISPs for up to 55-megapixel stereoscopic RAM — 2GB LPDDR3 Storage: … Leggi tutto

After six months of development, GNOME 3.14 was released today and it includes quite a few interesting changes such as multi-touch gestures for both the system and applications, re-worked default theme, new animations as well as various enhancements for the code GNOME applications. Let’s take a look at what’s new!  

Android app permission requests are getting out of control. More and more apps want access to your data, your location and other identifiable and highly valuable information. Fortunately, if you have rooted your phone or tablet, you can bring permissions under control.

Debian switched to Xfce as the default desktop environment back in November 2013. But that didn’t last long because a few days ago, Debian restored GNOME as the default desktop, based on preliminary results from the Debian Desktop Requalification for Jessie.