The Amp Hour Electronics Podcast

#622 – Building Firmware and Hardware for Trade Shows with Mike Szczys

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  • Mike and Chris work together at Golioth, Mike agreed to join Chris this week after Chris forgot to schedule a guest because of working on demos for Embedded World 23
  • Mike was on TAH episode 403 at DEFCON 26 talking about Badgelife
  • Backlit LEDs
  • Mike was the Editor in Chief at Hackaday for 9 years, he was there a total of 13 years
  • Remoticon happened twice during the pandemic
  • Supercon returned in November 2022
  • The Zephyr Project
  • Mike loves manifest files (or has come to love them)
  • Marti Bolivar – Macrobatics
  • Zephyr Devicetree
  • FreeRTOS – Brian Amos
  • Zephyr The Linux Foundation
  • Nordic chose Zephyr as their go-to RTOS / Ecosystem (they build the Nordic Connect SDK on top of Zephyr)
  • Beginner content in Zephyr (check the sample and test folder in Zephyr)
  • Benjamin (new Zephyr DevRel) is interested in getting the Wio Terminal supported
  • Sensor subsystem in Zephyr
  • Kconfig
  • Zephyr shells
  • ESP-IDF
  • Mike was recently on Robert Ferenec’s YouTube channel building an IoT solution live
  • Command line vs IDE
  • VScode plugins help bridge the gapo
  • The Adafruit MagTag
  • EPaper displays often are lacking docs
  • Pimoroni badger
  • Mike created an i2c listener which uses PIO for i2c. It passes received commands up to the Micropython layer.
  • Marshalling 
  • Micropython allows you to use things like Hershey font files
  • Jared Wolff was on the show talking about the nRF9160 feather (and Zephyr)
  • Find Mike on Mastodon at @[email protected]
  • Mike’s personal site is jumptuck.com
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