Board Farms - A Precursor to Remotely Managed Factories?
Image Source: Prpl Foundation I initially got interested in board farms because a client of mine, Softnautics , is working with several companies to build and develop the software infrastructure required to run such farms. As I started looking for reading material on the web, it wasn't easy to find a page that explains what a board farm is in simple terms. There exist a number of amazing sites like elinux.org that curate lists of products, software repositories and tech presentations intended for the power users. My intention here is to only provide an introduction to this topic and not delve into the details. Readers that have a deeper interest can explore other resources further. First a bit of history. Here's an intro from the Prpl Foundation . Mike Anderson here, an Engineer at Qualcomm Atheros, Inc. We recently posted a new open source project to Github that I’m pretty excited about, called boardfarm. It was created two years ago, and has been used daily to automaticall