Using OSHW and OSS for building your custom hardware platform

Talk describes a journey (and bunch of bragging stories) of designing and implementing an extendable hardware platform utilizing OSHW and OSS.

We talk about:

business requirements and how they affected the choice of hardware platform (Olimex Lime2)
hardware bugs how they are related to tight deadlines
what is actually needed to build a custom shield
maintaining and administering the whole platform