Moving halfway between applications programming and real time, this series talks about using Linux systems for automation and control in the physical world. (more…)

Robertson and Bourne describe a low budget, long-life embedded communications interface. (more…)

Porting programs like xfreecell from X to Nano-X.

Nowadays, it seems that when I've got an idea for a new program I want to write for Linux, if I search the Net, someone's already published an open-source version of it. Such was the case recently when I thought it'd really be fun to have a graphical solitaire game for Microwindows. (more…)

Need to add video capture to your PC/104 system? Use an ISA board and save a bundle. (more…)

Contest: Using the NIC as an Embedded System

Last August we started the idea of a contest where Embedded Linux Journal readers offer an idea, and we give them the hardware to build the system. That first contest was based on the MZ104 board. (more…)

What Linux is doing for the highly proprietary embedded systems market is what the PuffinPLC will do for industrial automation. (more…)

Can Linux read your handwriting? Embedded Linux takes addresses to barcodes. (more…)

Lombardo reveals the difference between developing a meaningful application and a doorstop. (more…)

Use a CompactFlash card as a nonmechanical alternative to a disk drive. (more…)

San Francisco — (press release excerpt) — CMP Media today announced the program for the Embedded Systems Conference Chicago, the Midwest's largest educational forum for embedded engineers, developers, and managers. With a special focus on automotive and industrial applications, the event's 90 classes and tutorials address the technical issues involved in building intelligence into everyday devices. (more…)

San Diego, CA — (press release excerpt) — Annabooks Events, producers of the Applied Computing Conference and Expo today announced the keynote addresses that will be presented at this year's conference, scheduled for May 14-17 at the Santa Clara Convention Center, Santa Clara, Calif. (more…)

CNET News.com's Stephen Shankland reports that, after three months of operating as a single company, Turbolinux and Linuxcare have called off their merger because of difficulties joining the companies' finances and operations. Shankland writes . . . (more…)

The Wall Street Journal (Interactive Edition) has discovered the entry of Embedded Linux into the handheld computer market. WSJ Interactive Edition editor Pui-Wing-Tam writes . . . (more…)