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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Try your hand at these open hardware projects for beginners

Your friends are going on about Arduino, you know that Raspberry Pi isn't actually a baked good filled with fruit, and you've been following along with Open Hardware Week. But…

Crew assembles three open source vehicles over lunch

When you think about automobile assembly, usually it's giant factories, robotic arms, and showers of sparks from welding machines that come to mind. But Carlo De Micheli…

CryEngine support on Linux, bringing open source to the kitchen, and more

Open source news for your reading pleasure. March 8-14, 2014 In this week's edition of our open source news roundup, we look at the new Raspberry Pi sound card, open source…

Free online Linux training, GoDaddy switching to OpenStack, and more

Open source news for your reading pleasure. March 3 - 7, 2014 In this week's edition of our open source news roundup, we look at Rochester Institute of Technology's (RIT) new…

12 videos to you get started with open source software

Getting started with new software can be overwhelming. It's even more frustrating when you transition from one tool to another, because you have to unlearn some habits in…

Authored Comments

Michael Harrison

8 Apr 2014

Crowdfunding an open source laptop, a new Apache project, and more

Beluga, we're well aware of Gooseberry and we've got something planned. :)

Michael Harrison

28 Mar 2014

Arduinos, 3D printing, and more at Red Hat open hardware day

Thanks so much for capturing the fun and excitement of that day, Jen. I think it's the joy of <em>possibility</em> that makes open hardware and maker culture so great, and we're just scratching the surface here. I can't wait for our next maker day!