Last week, Mike Riley at Dr. Dobb’s posted an update on BUG, in which he reviews BUG 1.4 and the BUGvonHippel and BUGsound modules. Overall, a very good piece offering a thorough and objective look at our latest releases, with a few nice photos to boot! This follows Dr. Dobb’s original review of BUG from last August.

Head on over to Dr. Dobbs and take a look, and check out some of our other press while you’re at it!

Last week, Brian C. posted details to BUGcommunity about BUG R1.4, the new production build of the BUG kernel and filesystem. After what seemed like an eternity to most of us here at BUG HQ, R1.4 is the most significant build to date, addressing many of the functionality issues BUG users have been facing since 1.0. In addition to providing software support for BUGsound, R1.4 contains several major and minor changes to APIs for existing BUGmodules, as well as U-boot and ipkg support.

The kernel and FS are available for download now, as is a new build of Dragonfly, the BUG SDK, v1.2.8.1, which is required for the upgrade.

If you have any questions, feel free to let us know via e-mail (support [a] buglabs [d] net) or on IRC (#buglabs on freenode).

Today, we’re excited to announce the availability of BUGsound, the first of the five BUGmodules we announced last month at CES. With a speaker, microphone, hardware stereo codecs and four 3.5-mm stereo jacks, you can use BUG to build your own portable music player, speakerphone, audio server and more.

Priced at $99 and shipping now, you can buy BUGsound from our store today. We really look forward to seeing what cool apps the community can make with this latest BUGmodule. BUGcommunity member finsprings used the BUGbase, BUGmotion and BUGsound to create phunky, a pretty nifty accelerometer-based sampling app. Check out the video to see it in action.

More information and some videos can be found on the BUGsound product page, and you can download hardware specs and diagrams from our wiki. And jump into the conversation on our IRC channel (#buglabs) to see what others are making as well.