Is it really possible to use the Beaglebone Black in industrial embedded projects? or it is just a maker/hobbyist platform? I have been searching for an industrial version of the Beaglebone Black in order to leverage the great know-how and resources available on this great open source hardware platform to make it work reliably on … Read more
Although I agree that proprietary software should have their own space within the embedded systems industry, there are some open source tools I consider essential when developing embedded software. Cenatic is the Spanish national reference center on open source technologies. They have published an interesting report on the usage of open source software on the … Read more
The technical workshop on the Spanish electronic ID card, DNIe, that took place in Valladolid the 1st of June, provided a good introduction into a subject I have just started to look into. The DNIe support website offers loads of resources useful for development of applications built around the usage of a DNIe smartcard. I … Read more
Embedded World 2010 in Nuremberg was a great exhibition and conference. The trendy topics this year seemed to be Android and energy-efficient computing, with a myriad of vendors selling low-power embedded solutions. There were as well plenty of ARM related tools and chip vendors, with ARM getting bigger all the time. Also, an example of … Read more
