Your comment, apart from "pretty nice summary", is talking about something totally unrelated to the posted article. You should have made a separate "Ask HN" thread.

As far as discussing hardware goes, you can post articles yourself.

I agree, sorry.

I too work with embedded linux and arm9's ... HSI has a few people of embedded domain hanging around, so just post what you feel is good and people are there.

what is HSI? these days I have to join various groups/lists/ircs/etc to interact with embedded world, but nothing like hacknews to spur innovation and new ideas... i have been thinking about building a vendor-neutral site for folks that want to bridge web/UI to embedded devices.

sry i meant HN . Yep a more h/w oriented site would be a good idea. problem is very few people are into all this as this is not really a easy to get in domain.

A site can be setup in a few hours , problem is building a community.

Definitely agree, though I have more a machine learning background. Simple serial port connections are so foreign to me it is bothersome.

I'm a ruby developer but I'd be very interested in learning more about embedded programming.

I have done a bunch of embedded development in the past. Embedded.com was a good resource. There's a lot to know so it is difficult to be really concise. Get to know lower level languages if you don't already (c, bit operations). Know how to disassemble code and read it. Monkey around with an arduino, then beagleboard. There are a few good books - anything by jack ganssle (sp?) is usually a good start.