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    Create, Share, and Save Money Using Open-Source Projects
    Create, Share, and Save Money Using Open-Source Projects
    Create, Share, and Save Money Using Open-Source Projects
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    Create, Share, and Save Money Using Open-Source Projects

    By Joshua M. Pearce

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    Live a more sustainable and economical life using open-source technology!

    Designed for beginning hobbyists and makers, this engaging guide is filled with ways to save money by making use of free and open-source technologies on a wide and impressive range of products. Written by a leader in the field of open-source technology, the book reveals the potential of at-home manufacturing and recycling projects―and even how to score free big-ticket items, including housing and electricity. All the projects have big money saving in mind, but also big fun!

    Create, Share, and Save Money Using Open-Source Projects lays out the many ways in which you can employ these resources on a small scale to live a more economical and sustainable lifestyle. You’ll find tons of DIY projects that demonstrate how to use open-source software and hardware to save money on:

    • Digital photographs and videos
    • Music, software, and instruments
    • Scientific equipment
    • Paper and audio books
    • Maps and GIS data
    • Patterns for clothing
    • Security systems
    • Cars
    • Electricity

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMcGraw-Hill Education
    Release dateOct 29, 2020
    ISBN9781260461770
    Create, Share, and Save Money Using Open-Source Projects
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    Joshua M. Pearce

    Dr. Joshua M. Pearce received his Ph.D. in Materials Engineering from the Pennsylvania State University. He then developed the first Sustainability program in the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education as an assistant professor of Physics at Clarion University of Pennsylvania and helped develop the Applied Sustainability graduate engineering program while at Queen's University, Canada. He currently is an Associate Professor cross-appointed in the Department of Materials Science & Engineering and in the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering at the Michigan Technological University where he runs the Open Sustainability Technology Research Group. His research concentrates on the use of open source appropriate technology to find collaborative solutions to problems in sustainability and poverty reduction. His research spans areas of electronic device physics and materials engineering of solar photovoltaic cells, and RepRap 3-D printing, but also includes applied sustainability and energy policy. He has published more than 100 peer-reviewed articles and is the author of the Open-Source Lab:How to Build Your Own Hardware and Reduce Research Costs.

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