Project North Star With Bryan Chris Brown

04/09/22 • 55 min

We've often said that open source is for more than just software, and on this episode Project North Star's Bryan Chris Brown is here to prove it with a freely available, modifiable design for an augmented reality headset you can build yourself. Join us for a discussion about topics like the ins and outs of open hardware design, sourcing parts from unlikely places, printing lenses out of resin, doing architecture work in the Unreal Engine, how standards like OpenXR fit into the picture, and a whole lot more.

Check out Project North Star's extensive community documentation, and follow Bryan on Twitter.

The FOSS Pod is brought to you by Google Open Source. Find out more at https://opensource.google

Check out Project North Star's extensive community documentation, and follow Bryan on Twitter.

The FOSS Pod is brought to you by Google Open Source. Find out more at https://opensource.google

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Open Source 101

By popular request, we're getting as fundamental as we can in this episode with a back-to-basics primer on as many open source concepts as we could come up with, which we hope will lay the groundwork for future episodes. Ever wonder about the difference between a branch and a fork, the ways copyright interacts with code, how open source extends beyond just software, or what makes a Linux distro a Linux distro? This episode is for you!

Notes

If you want to demystify software licensing, look no further than https://choosealicense.com/ and https://tldrlegal.com/

The FOSS Pod is brought to you by Google Open Source. Find out more at https://opensource.google, and learn more about their event detailing Kubernetes' move away from Dockershim here: http://goo.gle/LKL22

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Open-Source Alternatives

Creative software is getting more expensive all the time, but by the same token FOSS alternatives are getting more and more robust. On this ep we check in with what's new in some of the biggest open-source creative applications like Blender, Audacity, and the GNU Image Manipulation Program, plus we talk through some tips and tricks for more of our favorite open-source apps like VLC, EarTrumpet, Windows Terminal, WinMerge, and more.

The software we discussed in this ep includes:

Blender: https://www.blender.org/

Audacity: https://www.audacityteam.org/

GNU Image Manipulation Program: https://www.gimp.org/

VLC: https://www.videolan.org/vlc/

EarTrumpet: https://eartrumpet.app/

Windows Terminal: https://apps.microsoft.com/store/detail/windows-terminal/9N0DX20HK701?hl=en-us&gl=US

WinMerge: https://winmerge.org/

The FOSS Pod is brought to you by Google Open Source. Find out more at https://opensource.google