475: Stuffed Animal or Colleague

Chris and Elecia talk about the Embedded Online Conference, their experience learning Zephyr, and some listener questions.

Elecia will be presenting on Creating Chaos and Hard Faults at the Embedded Online Conference, Apr 29 - May 3, 2024. Some other talks that look interesting:

• The Power of a Look-up Table by Nathan Jones

• Zephyr Tools To Debug Hardware by Chris Gammell

• Breaking Good: Why Virtual Hardware Prefers Rough Handling by Uri Shaked

• Beyond Coding: Toward Software Development Expertise by Marian Petre

Use the EMBEDDEDFM coupon for a discount (or if your whole team is going, check out the group discounts).

Elecia’s book (Making Embedded Systems, 2nd Edition) is shipping (Amazon or Bookshop.org).

Zephyr is pretty amazing. 

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458: Fiddling, DIY, and Cursing

Trond Snekvik spoke with us about developing VSCode extensions and Bluetooth meshes.

Trond is a Staff Software Engineer at Nordic Semiconductor.

Nordic’s Visual Studio Code Extensions include device tree and kconfig support for the Zephyr project as well as tools for nRF Connect. 

Trond’s github page: github.com/trond-snekvik

In 329: At Least 32-Bits, Thank You, Kate Stewart of the Linux Foundation spoke with us about Zephyr in 2020 

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Thank you to Christopher for providing a picture of what may (or may not) be a troll.

329: At Least 32-Bits, Thank You

Kate Stewart (@_kate_stewart) of the Linux Foundation spoke with us about the Zephyr operating system (@ZephyrIoT).

Some Zephyr docs:

• Getting Started Guide

• Supported boards

Two projects using Zephyr:

• Open Artificial Pancreas System (openaps.org)

• Zephyr on a Hearing Aid talk at Embedded Linux Conference 2019