Hurray! This joyous occasion may not affect the majority of PC users, but it’s going to be a great day for some people! The new release of Ubuntu looks to sport many new software updates leading to improved usability and a new slew of features. GNOME 2.22.1 will now be supported which includes a new version of Nautilus, the native Ubuntu file browser. There will also be a new audio engine that allows advanced channel mixing and even an option to set individual volumes for the specific applications. There will be new native CD and DVD burning options including ISO burning out of box. I’ll be sitting at the edge of my seat until this release, hope you all are too!

This thing is absolutely awesome. After seeing this I was oddly inspired to go out and attempt to do some small systems programming. Already got myself a development board to play around with, but still missing a piece. Anyways, this little robot it pretty sweet, it uses sonar to travel a room and poll for objects that have a good resonance to them and it uses that object as a snare drum. It has a little tail behind it that it keeps rhythm with like a bass drum. It then records one loop and plays another  beat over it to make a overall nice sample. Pretty smart if you ask me! Be sure to check out the project page for the Yellow Drum Machine.