Create DIY music box cards with Punchbox
I love it when the opportunity to combine music and coding comes together. I’ve worked on a few personal projects related to music, from making music with network traffic to an auto-accompaniment system for electronic drums. More recently, my wonderful wife gave me a beautiful, programmable music box for my birthday. You punch out music notes on a card and crank it through the music box to play a tune. read...
Meetings that make people happy: Myth or magic?
People tend to focus on the technical elements of meeting prep: setting the objective(s), making the agenda, choosing a place and duration, selecting stakeholders, articulating a timeline, and so on. But if you want people to come to a meeting ready to fully engage, building trust is mission-critical, too. If you need people to engage in your meetings, then you’re likely expecting people to come ready to share their creativity,...
Command line tips, 8 reasons to love GNOME, automated Raspberry Pi back-ups, and more
Last week we announced that we’re giving away a LulzBot Taz 6 3D printer. Enter by Sunday, August 26 at 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time (ET) for a chance to win. Read on to see what Opensource.com readers were most excited about on the site last week. read...
