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If you're just getting into home automation and go searching for Open Source HA projects, you'll discover there aren't any obviously dominant players - more a mix of partly-developed personal projects that aren't very portable. Why is that?

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Links for this ep:
 * Allison Randal: www.twitter.com/allisonrandal
 * Desktop Home Hacks: www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8asl5SsGy4
 * Mister House: misterhouse.sourceforge.net
 * Open Remote: www.openremote.org
 * SuperHouseTV: www.superhouse.tv

Despite Australia's strong involvement in the early history of space exploration, we're now lagging way behind many far smaller nations in our commitment to the industry. At linux.conf.au 2009 in Hobart, Marco Ostini gathered together a group of like-minded people to create Lunar Numbat: a project to develop Open Source space technology as part of the White Label Space team competing for the Google Lunar X-Prize. At linux.conf.au 2012 in Ballarat I managed to pin him down long enough to film this interview.

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Links for this ep:
 * Marco Ostini: www.twitter.com/marcoostini
 * Lunar Numbat: www.lunarnumbat.org
 * White Label Space: www.whitelabelspace.com
 * Google Lunar X-Prize: www.googlelunarxprize.com

At linux.conf.au 2012 I had the good fortune of meeting up with old friends and also making new ones, including the amazingly talented Matt Evans. Matt did a great talk called "Hack Everything: Re-Purposing Everyday Devices", so I caught up with him briefly afterwards to talk to him about it.

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A quick walk-around of the hardware assembly tutorial at the 3rd Arduino Miniconf, which took place on January 16, 2012 as part of linux.conf.au.

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Links for this ep:

• www.arduinominiconf.org
• www.linux.conf.au