Features

Hacking the Parrot A.R. Drone  by Bill Childers

Check out the potential for this semi-autonomous, largely automated quadracopter.

Cross-Breeding the BeagleBone Black with the ATmega328p  by Joshua Datko

How to build up the hardware from basic components and configure the software to transform the BeagleBone into an ATmega328p programmer.

Reglue: Opening Up the World to Deserving Kids, One Linux Computer at a Time  by Brian Conner

Reglue gives free Linux computers to under-privileged children and their families.

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Oscad: Open-Source Computer-Aided Design Tool  by Rakhi R and Kannan M. Moudgalya

Introducing Oscad, an open-source CAD tool for circuit design, simulation, analysis and PCB design.

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Reuven M. Lerner's At the Forge   Discourse  

Dave Taylor's Work the Shell   Iterating Turns in Zombie Dice  

Kyle Rankin's Hack and /   Tails above the Rest, Part III  

Shawn Powers' The Open-Source Classroom   Hulk Bash!  

Doc Searls' EOF   A Cool Project for Microsoft: Adopt Linux  

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