An easy to use music downloader written in Python. OnTheSpot has support for various music services and, unlike similar projects, downloaded files and metadata are sourced directly from the service of your choosing. The app includes a GUI, CLI, and Web UI frontend.

Valetudo is an opinionated software solution for cloud-free vacuum robots installed on thousands of robots. Since it was started in 2018, it has matured to a reliable fire-and-forget solution that just works. Root your Roomba! (Note: Roombas not supported by valetudo, but plenty of other makes are.)

Open Source Blueprints for Civilization. Build Yourself. We’re developing open source industrial machines that can be made for a fraction of commercial costs, and sharing our designs online for free. The goal of Open Source Ecology is to create an open source economy – an efficient economy which increases innovation by open collaboration.

Minifree Ltd (based in the United Kingdom) sells secure, high quality computer systems with Free, Libre, Open Source Software (FOSS) pre-installed. Libreboot BIOS/UEFI replacement (based on coreboot) and encrypted Debian GNU+Linux OS pre-installed (KDE Plasma desktop environment), with full driver support, or other Linux distro / FreeBSD / NetBSD at your request. These machines are intended for security-conscious people who also believe in the ideals of the free software movement, and want something easy to use. Perfect for privacy software like Tor Browser or Tails; you can also run Qubes OS on these machines.

Open source bird ID stuff

This is a list of small, free, or experimental tools that might be useful in building your game / website / interactive project. Although I’ve included ‘standards’, this list has a focus on artful tools and toys that are as fun to use as they are functional. The goal of this list is to enable making outside of closed production ecosystems or walled software gardens.