BeagleCast 2011-03-07: The inaugural podcast

BeagleBoard

Today's hosts are Jason Kridner, Gerald Coley and Jeffery Osier-Mixon. Below are the show note links.
Links to the recordings

• BeagleCast-20110307.mp3
• BeagleCast-20110307.ogg

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Jeff and Yocto

• Jeff at a conference near the Columbia river gorge
• Jeff now the Yocto community manager
• Yocto includes Poky build tools, is multiplatform and has a BeagleBoard BSP
• Yocto gets many new partners
• What does it mean to join with OpenEmbedded?
• OE and Gentoo share roots
• Arago Project
• Koen working on the oe-core
• eLinux wiki summary of embedded Linux projects
• Wikis "are like bread" (good when fresh)
• BeagleBoard.org and Google Summer of Code
• oe-core status update and Yocto birds of a feather at ELC week of April 10

SD card discussion

• Amazon selling consumer friendly packaging
• SD card performance shootout needed to measure controller performance

BeagleBoard and electronics hobbyists of all ages

• Maker Faire
• Getting Started in Electronics
• Capacitors explode
• 555 timer contest

News from the BeagleBoard.org RSS feed and elsewhere

• Cloud9 IDE on BeagleBoard
• BeagleBoard Trainer-xM
• Contributing upstream patches, such as uEnv.txt patch in u-boot
• The move from ttyS2 to ttyO2
• linux-omap kernel patchwork
• Linaro status
• Linux news
• Linux input events in Perl
• Student Robotics has a nice BeagleBoard based robot design and real student roots
• xM now available from Tenet Technetronics
• Koen made BeagleBoard coasters with his MakerBot
• Adobe Flash10.1 with DSP H264
• PIXHAWK Gumstix Camera
• BeagleWall with interview of Roger Monk

The theme music for BeagleCast was created and provided by Alasdair Drake.