An Interview with Jeff Keyzer and Jason Kridner - Bonafide BeagleBoard Bionomics

From The Amp Hour Electronics Podcast The Amp Hour (Chris Gammell and David L Jones)

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Wow…kind of a long episode this week (but totally worth it), due to having TWO guests on the show! Jason Kridner of the BeagleBoard Project and Texas Instruments and our regular co-co-host, Jeff Keyzer of MightyOhm.com.

Some of Jason's favorite projects for the BeagleBoard are robotics, including some that utilize the libfreenect library.
Jason sees the BeagleBoard getting smaller and cheaper in the future, trending towards other projects like Raspberry Pi
The Gadgeteer (from Microsoft) doesn't appear to be open source hardware, but is a way for .NET programmers to start with hardware.
Though the hardware may not be OSHW, the .NET Micro Framework is FOSS. And using .NET on Linux is a possibility in part by Miguel de Icaza.
Jason's next project with the BeagleBoard will be to remove the need for his iPad for his retro gaming interface system, the iCade.
Due to frustration over a broken 40 pin zif socket Jeff went out and bought and fell in love with a Hakko 808 desoldering station.
Jason has seen some crazy BGA mods. Send in pictures of your favorite board mods to be featured on the show.
Software on the BeagleBoard is pretty varied. The Angstrom Distribution is based upon similar code to WebOS, the main software of the temporarily cheap and available HP touchpads.
Roel Adriaans took The Amp Hour Bingo concept to a new level! Follow along when you listen to the show!
Bill Porter did an unconventional thing: he proposed to his girlfriend by hijacking her PCB panel order from @Laen!
A new competition in the works: a 7400 logic series competition from Dangerous Protoypes!
Jeff had a great time at the Chaos Communication Camp, held outside of Berlin Germany. Check out his photos on the MightyOhm Flickr Page.
There was a talk about sending hackers (in satellite or human form) to space in the near future.
Jeff compared it to Burning Man, the annual art festival in the desert of the US.
Jeff was selling his Geiger Counter kit at the CCC and will continue to at the NY Maker Faire.
Why isn't there overnight camping at any of the MakerFaire events?

There was a lot to talk about, so we went over by about 15 minutes, but hopefully you can wait it out. It's all worth it in the end! And the very end of the show has some fun news. Enjoy!