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Brewing Electronics with Eli Hughes

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  • Eli helped Chris out with some Zephyr stuff recently!
  • His background is in low level embedded, c, RTOS
  • He got FreeRTOS running at a conference after sitting with someone who convinced him to consider an RTOS instead of just a superloop.
  • RTOS book
  • Traffic analogy
  • Pyrotechnics
  • Eli was a guest on The Macrofab Engineering Podcast, not too long ago and gave some great background info there as well.
  • Transitioning from FreeRTOS to Zephyr
  • Eli loved nordic parts
  • KConfig and Device Trees
  • Nordic tutorials
  • Eli has a talk coming up at Altium live about his experience in engineering
  • Rick Hartley
  • Lee Richey
  • "Being a student for the rest of your life"
  • What is TZero building? A Tri Clamp based hydrometer that talks over cellular
  • Had been a consultant most of his career, at least on the side
  • SBIR
  • There are companies just diong SBIR grant writing
  • Eli met an investor who said, "The product sucks, but the team is great" and became their patron/investor
  • Sounds like Gerry Roston, former guest of the show
  • Mark Barnhart of NPC
  • Jeri Ellsworth episode where she talks about silicon valley.
  • Starting narrow but going horizontal
  • Saving time by going cellular
  • Amper is a company shipping out celluar data to monitor shop floor processes (based out of mHUB)
  • Making a flexible solution
  • Send all data to the cloud, to cut down on firmware
  • "Wifi is free"
  • Videos of tri clamps failing on YouTube
  • Tzero ships the sensor to the brewers for install, so it's a very hands-off process (no field support required)
  • Glycol (used for cooling) process monitoring is another area they're getting into
  • Wendover productions video about COVID vaccine shipping
  • SynBioBeta Conference
  • Impossible burger
  • "Everyone loves just-in-time (logistics) until things blow up"
  • Working relationship with NXP
  • Videos for the Freescale cup
  • Codewarrior
  • After the NXP and Freescale merged, found out about "Pro Support"
  • They are like internal mercenaries/paratroopers, for hire out to NXP's customers
  • Eli has been writing about parts that just came out, like the LPC55S69
  • For more info about Eli's company, check out tzerobrew.com
  • Find Eli online:
    • LinkedIn
    • Twitter @EMH203
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