Explore the concept of creating a personal local board farm for embedded hardware development in this 49-minute Linux Foundation conference talk. Learn how to organize development boards efficiently as they outgrow your desk space. Discover board farm requirements, challenges, and practical solutions for controlling, powering, monitoring, and automating boards. Gain insights from the speaker's experience in designing and building his own board farm. Understand the benefits of reducing noise levels and surface clutter, while addressing the inconveniences of limited manual access and visual feedback. Delve into topics such as power control, power measurement, networking, and management hosts. Examine various power supply options for different board power needs. Get an overview of the software side and advanced features of board farms. Conclude with final thoughts and a Q&A session to enhance your understanding of efficient embedded hardware development setups.