Michael Harrison

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Chapel Hill, NC

Michael an unrepentant geek with a love for games, the social web, and open source projects to share with his kids. He writes about raising geek children at GeekDad and records a podcast about games called The Dice Section. You can follow him on Twitter at @oldbie.

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Unsurpassed open filmmaking on feature length movie Gooseberry

For animators working with free and open source software, nothing compares to Blender . A fully-featured 3D animation suite, it offers a huge array of tools that individuals…

Leveraging 21st-century education with open source

Open source achievements based on merit, not age

Lauren Egts is a student who loves technology. She teaches children and adults alike about computer programming, presenting about Raspberry Pi and Scratch at local area Mini…

NASA releases code, National Robotics Week, and more

Open source news for your reading pleasure. April 5-11, 2014, 2014 In this week's edition of our open source news roundup, we look at the new OpenDaylight internship, National…

Facebook's WebScaleSQL, Cisco investing in OpenStack, and more

Open source news for your reading pleasure. March 22-28, 2014 In this week's edition of our open source news roundup, we look at power management in the new Linux version, the…

Book of fun and easy electronics projects

"When you go to a store and buy an electronic gizmo, does it ever occur to you that you could make one yourself? Or even that it would be FUN to make one yourself?" This is…

Open source sharing in government, Hadoop integration with OpenStack, and more

Open source news for your reading pleasure. March 15-21, 2014 In this week's edition of our open source news roundup, we look at The Guardian's new custom rich text editor…

Authored Comments

Michael Harrison

7 May 2014

Facebook opens up animation library, Ceph finds a new home at Red Hat, and more

No problem, Roberto! And good luck with the project. Thanks for the kinds words on my other projects. I'd love to get back to both one of these days... :)

Michael Harrison

11 Apr 2014

Book of fun and easy electronics projects

There is a <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Arduino-Beginners-Essential-Skills-Every-ebook/dp/B00GUJZ0RS/ref=tmm_kin_title_0">Kindle version available on Amazon</a>.