I’m no stranger to quirky USB power systems; indeed I have ranted about USB chargers for over ten years already, well before most people would have heard brands such as…

Visual Studio Code, colloquially known as VS Code, has become the de-facto Swiss Army Knife of Integrated Development Environments (IDEs). It is already configured for a lot of different languages…
If you have been following me on socials, you probably know that I’ve taken August off from dayjob (mostly out of exhaustion — it’s been a complex three months, satisfying,…
If you have been following me on socials, you probably know that I’ve taken August off from dayjob (mostly out of exhaustion — it’s been a complex three months, satisfying,…

Here are the articles, videos, and tools that we’ve been excited about this July. We hope you enjoy these links, and we look forward to hearing what you’ve been reading…

Zephyr OS is an open-source, scalable, and adaptable real-time operating system (RTOS) for multiple hardware platforms, including Espressif’s SoCs ESP32, ESP32S2, ESP32C3, and ESP32S3. Zephyr OS provides a wide range…

It’s a tale as old as IoT. You get a project with a cellular connection working, but when you move to a different physical location, all of a sudden you…

I’ve been a firmware engineer at two wearable companies in the past, Pebble and Fitbit, and there was always one class of customer support tickets and user complaints that never…

I’m Markus, software engineer @ Tridonic, where we are working on Internet-connected wireless lighting solutions based on the Matter standard. To be able to monitor the reliability of those devices…

The Zephyr project is a popular RTOS for developing embedded applications. Zephyr is a powerful tool, but it requires a dizzying set of system requirements you must install and configure…