This is the second part of the interview with Selena Savic. Read the first part here: On architecture and people
Selena Savic @Make Me Festival during DIY Solar cells workshop
Photo by Gordan Savicic (cc)
Selena Savic is one the main forces responsible for organizing the Make Me Festival / Napravi me! jointly with Zene na delu/Women at Work organization. During the festival she led the workshop DIY solar cells. Selena is an artist and architect combining concepts of public spaces, open sourcing, new media, sound, programming and DIY.
Selena Savic leading Solar workshop @Make Me Festival
Belgrade, June 2011, photo by Gordan Savicic (cc)
Today I’m going to present you open source DIY projects by Igor Brkic aka HyperGlitch. You already know Igor from my Artduino workshop overview few weeks ago, because he was one of the instructors during the workshop.
Igor works as a Research Associate at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering in Zagreb. He enjoys hacking hardware and devices, preferably MIDI interfaces. But he’s also deeply involved into programming, linux, playing guitar, dsp, arduino…
Wearable Chronos-theremin (cc)
It’s time to introduce the biggest and the most significant star on the free software sky, the open source operating system GNU / Linux.
All documentaries include historical development of Linux and Free Software Foundation, with stories from the perspectives of the initiators and programmers Richard Stallman and Linus Torvalds.
Illustration above: The GNU logo by Etienne Suvasa
Illustration bellow: Tux, the penguin, mascot of Linux