7 Reasons Open Source Software can be Evil
Through-out my travels, I encounter quite a few development teams that seem to live by the adage, “The best software…
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5 Tips for Setting Realistic Project Expectations
Quite a few companies and teams that I encounter have an expectations problem. They have unrealistic expectations for the time…
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5 Advantages of using Micro Python for Embedded Software
A few years ago, in December of 2013, Damien George successfully funded a Kickstarter project that launched Micro Python. Micro…
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The Top 5 Causes for Project Fatigue
Project fatigue can have a crippling effect on the project development cycle. A project starts and the development team is…
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The Silent Firmware Revolution
Moore’s law is well known in the electronics industry; it states that the number of transistors roughly doubles every two…
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Using strstr to Parse JSON Messages
When I first started to write embedded applications in C, microcontrollers were not very powerful, and we rarely ever parsed…
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Getting Started with JSON for Embedded Developers
For decades embedded software developers worked on products that were stand-alone and did not require any internet access. Over the…
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10 Pain-free Steps to Configure an Interrupt Controller
Properly setting up interrupts on a microcontroller isn’t easy. The number of times an engineer has setup interrupts in their…
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The Key Factor Being Ignored by IoT Developers
If you’ve been paying attention to the progress being made on the IoT, you’ve heard about the billions of IoT…
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Designing Embedded Systems using MicroPython
The C/C++ programming languages have long dominated the embedded systems industry, with very few other languages being able to find…
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5 Tips for using Arm TrustZone in Cortex-M Processors
As embedded system developers transition to creating connected, IoT devices, security has become one of the most important issues they…
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5 Resources for learning Python
Python has become an indispensable tool to embedded software developers. Whether Python is being used to provide a GUI to…
