Naoya Hashimoto has been working on system design and integration with open source software for years. In the past few years, his career and interests have been shifting toward cloud engineering mainly for AWS with orchestration tools such as Chef or CloudFormation.
He has reviewed Icinga Network Monitoring, Home Security System with BeagleBone, and Building networks and servers using BeagleBone, both by Packt Publishing:
Thanks to the author and project coordinator Danuta, who gave me this opportunity to review the book. I am very impressed with her work and this project because we can create a media center device with BeagleBone and open source software. I hope that we get more such opportunities to work with BeagleBone and other open source software.
Pei JIA holds a PhD degree in computer science from the University of Essex, with full financial aid by Overseas Research Studentship (ORS). He specializes in various computer vision algorithms (particularly, 2D and 3D morphable models) and has extensive embedded machine vision experience. He is the pioneer of advocating all kinds of open source, both software and hardware. He has just designed his own smart house in beautiful British Columbia using a BeagleBone Black-based control center. Recently, he launched his enterprise, Longer Vision Tech., in ShenZhen, China, which focuses on designing intelligent vision systems. He has been keeping a close eye on the electronics market and a cooperating closely with the connections with in Seattle and Silicon Valley.
It is my pleasure to be invited to review this book, BeagleBone Media Center, whose title attracted me at first sight. Various single-board computers (SBC) have now emerged, such as BeagleBone Black, Raspberry Pi, Banana Pi Pro, and so on. It's certain that BeagleBone Black has been playing an important role in the development of SBCs. This book elaborates on how to design a media center based on a BeagleBone Black SBC and it comes down to some open source software, such as MediaDrop. I strongly suggest that you read this book (in particular, open source advocators).
Chidananda Matada Shivananda is an electrical engineering graduate who specializes in system dynamics and controls at Villanova University. He has 2 years of industry experience that involves automotive engine management software development at Robert Bosch, India. His interests lie in embedded systems, mobile robotics, and control systems.
I would like to thank Packt Publishing for giving me this wonderful opportunity.