Thoughts on development and contributions

Goals of the IEMKit Library

The core goal was and still is to make Audio Interfaces, Sensors and Interactive tools usable as a base for individual projects on a wide range of platforms on affordable small low-power computer.

Direction of the IEMKit project

• split the project into packages (and eventually separate git repositories): a Sensor stack, the HAL/realtime stack for remote clients.
• Code size: keep repositories small, clean and maintainable.
• Build complexity: should mostly use common available software, kernels and tools.
• Reuse in other projects: see above + limit modules dependencies
• reuse of hardware: Modules should be realized so, that they are use common buses, and do not depend on special main-boards as good as possible, so that they can be reused in future embedded boards also.

Plans for a IEMKit:

All development for IEMKit should be Open Hardware and Open Software, so that it can be used by others. Therefore the IEM gitlab server should be used.