Linux Journal December 2009 – Issue #188
If last month’s Infrastrucuture issue was too “big” for you then try on this month’s Embedded issue. Find out how to use Player for programming mobile robots, build a humidity controller for your root cellar, find out how to reduce the boot time of your embedded system, and if you’re new to embedded systems find out the basics that go into one. You can also read about the Beagle Board, the Mesh Potato and a spate of other interestingly named items. And along with our regular columns don’t miss our new monthly column: Economy Size Geek.
Features
* Playing with the Player Project by Kevin Sikorski
Programming mobile robots to interface with sensors, actuators and robots.
* Introduction: a Typical Embedded System by Johan Thelin
The common parts that go into an embedded Linux system.
* Controlling the Humidity with an Embedded Linux System by Jeffrey Ramsey
It’s not the heat; it’s the humidity.
* Reducing Boot Time in Embedded Linux Systems by Christopher Hallinan
The years fly, but the seconds can drag on forever.
Indepth
* The Mesh Potato by David Rowe
Everybody loves a good Spud!
* Isolated Multisession Workstations by Jorge Salgado
Access Ubuntu, Windows, Mac OS and Citrix from the same workstation.
Columns
* Reuven M. Lerner’s At the Forge 2009 Book Roundup
* Dave Taylor’s Work the Shell Calculating the Distance between Two Latitude/Longitude Points
* Kyle Rankin’s Hack and / Message for You Sir
* Dirk Elmendorf’s Economy Size Geek A Pico-Sized Platform with Potential
* Doc Searls’ EOF Is “Open Phone” an Oxymoron?
Review
* The Goggles, They Do Something by Kyle Rankin
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