“Learn to code” is the new mantra for the 21st century. What’s often lost in that statement is exactly what makes programming so useful if you’re not planning to switch careers and become a software engineer. That was the beginning of a post dealing with Python programming for not experts. Why should you learn a…
It is an interesting question, isn’t it? People not “inside” the maker world or not expert in programming think that Arduino and RaspberryPi are two flavours of the same object. Like if you ask “Mac or PC” rather than “Ubuntu or Debian” if you’re nerdish. Indeed, Arduino is a microcontroller, while RaspberryPi is a microcomputer…
In principle, there was MapReduce, that gave us his open source son, Hadoop. Then, BigTable came, generating a world of NoSQL databased. Now Borg, the incredible cloud computing software that handles the whole Google cloud applications, will give us Kubernetes, an open source cloud computing management software, that should be the “most efficient way to…
When Open Source and e-health unite, something really interesting can happen. If you’re thinking about your next project, maybe you should care about some good advices from Fred Trotter, a serial entrepreneur on the open source meditech field. Here is an interesting interview reported by Opensource.com: Fred Trotter is a frequent speaker at OSCON and…
An interesting experiment from Fabio Nelli, dedicated to all the software engineers who need to build or study a parallel computing system. The traditional ones are really expensive but, as you can read below, by using MPI library for python and at least a couple of Raspberry pies, you have a full performing system, almost…
A small, super low power, inexpensive, and 100% Python programmable IoT development board. Few days left to get an early bird pledge, don’t miss it! The team already got nearly 200% funded: The WiPy takes the wireless freedom of WiFi and combines it with the power, flexibility, and ease of use of Python. We designed…
A goldmine of open source code is available to programmers, but choosing the right library and understanding how to use it can be tricky. Sourcegraph has created a search engine and code browser to help developers find better code and build software faster. Sourcegraph is a code search engine and browsing tool that semantically indexes…
Ubuntu 15.04 Vivid Vervet, the latest release from Canonical, is available for download since April, 23rd with updates across the desktop, phone, cloud and IoT ecosystem. Ubuntu 15.04 is the advanced developers’ favourite platform today, and presents a fully converged platform spanning cloud, device and client. Desktop Ubuntu is the favourite environment for Linux developers,…
In case you missed our previous articles, we summarize briefly what is RandA. RandA is a system that allows a physical and functional integration between Raspberry Pi and Arduino, allowing the use of Arduino shields with the Raspberry Pi computational power. It also includes an intelligent power management and a RT clock. In figure shows RandA…
Less than 20 days to go yet, and this project has been already funded. PLEN is a humanoid tiny open source robot born aiming at, according to team’s vision: Our aim is to open up the relationship between humans and technology through printable and open-source robot kit, ”PLEN2”. We do not believe that robots should…
Happy Birthday Git! Linus Torvalds 10 years ago today released Git after it was clear BitKeeper was no longer an option for the Linux community. He assessed other existing revision control systems and decided none would do. Ultimately, he decided he would just write a new one, so he went away for a weekend and…
Most of Facebook’s announcements at last F8 developer conference were iOS-centric, but the company also released three new open source tools for Android developers. The Tools are: Year Class, that is meant to help developers quickly figure out what kind of device a user is running. Thanks to this, a developer can quickly tune an…
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