Monthly Archives: September 2013

DIY pushes hardware from kindergarten to Kickstarter

Resurgence of the Do It Yourself (DIY) community has driven a range of open networking platforms, giving aspiring technologists cheap and easy access to embedded development. Outside of hobbyist toys and educational devices, however, “hacker” boards are increasing performance and I/O flexibility, and … Continue reading

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IT Technology for industrial controls applications

It is the author’s opinion that automation  of the controls networking and the IT network is inevitable. It became inevitable the moment the controls industry chose to use Ethernet as the medium with which to communicate data. The controls industry may choose … Continue reading

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Building a product based software

With a wide variety of proven open source software now readily available to run on the target hardware, the platform engineer’s typical day-to-day tasks instead focus on configuration, customization, and integration of existing open source software, rather than design and … Continue reading

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