Baremetallics

For many embedded engineers, “the cloud” feels abstract and kind of mysterious. It was the same for me. IoT devices today are always connected: sending, receiving, analyzing, and showing data. But how does it actually work behind the scenes?

The V-Model is a product development lifecycle that maps design phases on one side and testing phases on the other. It’s simple, easy to follow, and works well for small and medium projects like smart appliances or wearables.

Error handling is tricky. On one side, the caller needs to react to errors. On the other side, the more error details you pass back, the more complex the caller code becomes. Complex code means harder to read, harder to maintain, and more bugs. An...

Sysbuild is a higher-level build system that can be used to combine different modules that are not in the necessary under the same project like MCUmgr and MCUBoot. It’s a great tool and it’s part of the Zephyr ecosystem, but sometimes can be a pa...

In a previous post, I mentioned that I’ve been working a lot with the Linux and Zephyr RTOS code lately. Most of the time, I’m either tuning the device tree spec (DTS) or patching the kernel or writing drivers. I learned a lot about how Linux org...