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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