Features

• Hexapod—a Linux-Powered Spider Robot  by Anton Borisov
  Interview with Matt Bunting, the hexapod robot developer.
  
• Debugging Embedded Linux Platforms with GDB and Python  by Tom Parkin
  GDB provides support for scripting debugging actions using a Python interpreter.
  
• Breaking Free the Gumstix DSP  by James McColl
  Setting the Gumstix Overo Fire ablaze with the DSP.
  
• Speech I/O for Embedded Applications  by Rick Rogers
  Speech I/O works! See how to apply it in your next embedded application project.
  

Indepth

• CyanogenMod 7.0—Gingerbread in the House  by Shawn Powers
  What happens when you mix powerful, Linux-powered cell phones with an active Open Source community?
  
• Tiny Core Linux  by Joey Bernard
  An intro to this very small, run-in-memory distro.
  
• Roll Your Own Embedded Linux System with Buildroot  by Alexander Sirotkin
  Embedded Linux, the easy way.
  
• A Primer to the OAuth Protocol  by Adrian Hannah
  OAuth is a simple way to authenticate users.
  

Columns

• Reuven M. Lerner's At the Forge   Backbone.js  
  
• Dave Taylor's Work the Shell   More Fun with Days and Dates  
  
• Mick Bauer's Paranoid Penguin   DNS Cache Poisoning, Part II: DNSSEC Validation  
  
• Kyle Rankin's Hack and /   Lightning Hacks—the Command Next Door  by Kyle Rankin
  
• Doc Searls' EOF   Whatever Sinks Your Boat  
  

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