Gonzo Pi: Free Your Filmmaking #piday #raspberrypi

An open source camera setup for on the go editing. Channel your inner Hunter S. Thompson and get out there and film!

a FOSS digital video camera with the Raspberry Pi, a 3d printed body with editing, dubbing and multi-camera features. Runs on Linux with an all-in-one filmmaking interface.

Gonzo Pi’s unique filmmaking interface keeps track of your films, scenes, shots and takes. You can edit takes in a non linear way, add soundfx, music or voice over. Once you’re happy Gonzo Pi can render the scene or film and upload it to the web.

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Iowa is on the verge of removing civil rights protections for gender identity

If Gov. Kim Reynolds signs Senate File 418, Iowa will be the first state to roll back civil rights protections for trans and gender-nonconforming people.

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Elon Musk is in charge. The Trump White House just won't admit it.

Chris Hayes explains why Elon Musk's commanding presence at Trump's Cabinet meeting, despite several costly DOGE mistakes, may reveal who really has the power.

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Apple says it’s fixing a speech-to-text bug that briefly replaces ‘racist’ with ‘Trump’

Apple said it is working on fixing a bug in its dictation feature after a viral TikTok post showed an iPhone suggest the word “Trump” when its user said the word “racist.”

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“FLOW” (2024): Made With Open Source

Image of various stills from FLOW from Blender interview

 

Flow is an enchanting film about the journey of a cat. It is notable for a few reasons – no words are spoken as the cat makes friends, gets out of scrapes, and generally survives a (post human?) drowning world.

It is also the first Academy Award nominated movie made in Blender! With a budget of only $4 Million, it is a testament to the power of open source.

Blender spoke with the director Gints Zilbalodis:

…Blender’s mission, where a small, independent team with a limited budget is able to create a story that moves audiences worldwide, and achieve recognition with over 60 awards, including a Golden Globe for Best Animation and two Oscar nominations.

How did you learn Blender?

I learned a lot online, but it was great to have someone with more experience next to me (Konstantīns). He did a lot of rigging and was much more technical than me, so I could ask him for advice. Sometimes, I needed something specific in the animatic, like the deer moving in a spiral, and he would write a script to automate it. This was before Geometry Nodes.

Read more – Making Flow – Interview with director Gints Zilbalodis

Fast Company – How ‘Flow’ turned a $4 million budget into an animated work of art

Hollymotion – “FLOW” (2024): THE FUTURE OF 3D ANIMATION CINEMA ON BLENDER

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GOP lawmakers left holding the bag as angry constituents lambast DOGE cuts

Some Republican lawmakers are starting to balk at Elon Musk’s razing of the federal infrastructure, as they face pushback from angry constituents at town halls and protests at their district offices.

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Topological Superconductors from a Materials Perspective

A lot has been written about the Microsoft announcement of Majorana in quantum computing.

In a paper in Chemistry of Materials, Vol 35/Issue 16, a team from MIT discuss making superconductors focusing on material properties. It’s a good read into what is happening and the math involved.

Read the paper in full on ACS Publications here (no paywall or sign-up).

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