Here we reveal the four winning projects of the "Will Linux Work?" contest.
We were floored by the type of American ingenuity that came through!

Home Utility Support System

Boiler Control

Martin Ewing


A system to monitor and control home heating and hot water systems with the objective of providing engineering and economic analysis to allow the homeowner to minimize costs and increase the effectiveness of the home's utility systems...

Chicken Coop Door Automation

Chicken Sitter

Gordon Smith


One night it was bright enough to see raccoons high in a tree next door, which sent me briefly into a panic trying to remember if I had shut the door on the chicken coop. Four small spring chickens have little to protect them at night...

GPS Monitoring System

MicroServer on the High Seas

Steve Castellotti


For the past two years I have been living aboard a trimaran in New Zealand. Along with that environment comes special challenges, needs, and considerations for technology which include power consumption, physical space, reliability, and flexibility. Enter the OpenMicroServer...

Irrigation Monitoring System

Let there be water!

Colin Duplantis


I have developed software to control my ranch's irrigation system. The problem I have is the controller in the pump room is subject to California Foothills summer heat and, worse, ubiquitous dust. I have yet to find a server that can run reliably in this environment...