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Weekend Project: Learning Ins and Outs of Arduino

Posted by on Saturday, 14 January, 2012

Arduino is an open embedded hardware and software platform designed for rapid creativity. It's both a great introduction to embedded programming and a fast track to building all kinds of cool devices like animatronics, robots, fabulous blinky things, animated clothing, games, your own little fabs… you can build what you imagine. Follow along as we learn both embedded programming and basic electronics.


Weekend Project: Get to Know Btrfs

Posted by on Saturday, 7 January, 2012

The Butter/Better/B-tree Filesystem, Btrfs, is supposedly destined to become the default Linux filesystem. What makes it special, and what's wrong with good old tried-and-true Ext2/3/4?


Weekend Project: Get to Know Btrfs

Posted by on Saturday, 7 January, 2012

The Butter/Better/B-tree Filesystem, Btrfs, is supposedly destined to become the default Linux filesystem. What makes it special, and what's wrong with good old tried-and-true Ext2/3/4?