Ron Evans joined the show to talk about Gobot, writing software for hardware, and open source software’s role in improving the human condition.

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Featuring:

• Ron Evans – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X
• Erik St. Martin – GitHub, X
• Carlisia Thompson – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
• Brian Ketelsen – GitHub, X

Show Notes:

Gobot

@rakyll - go-hardware list

@maruel - gohci

@roylee17 - ble

@lazywei - go-opencv

Microbit tiny computer

Raspi Zero W

Intel Joule

Intel TinyTile

Ubuntu Snapcraft

Great Bluetooth LE support

Great OpenCV support

Golang on RTOS like Zephyr, MBED

Shared set of low level hardware interfaces

Let’s discuss the philosophy of open source. Is the purpose of OSS just to “save money”, or perhaps there is something else to it…

Proposal: Standard Logger Interface

#golang logging library maintainers: It’s time we agreed on a common interface and converged so we don’t have so much mass confusion.

Package Oriented Design

Floppy Gopher

GDB GUI

GopherCon Speakers Announced!! (how could we forget that??)

Each week on the show we give a shout out to an open source project or community that’s made an impact in our day to day developer lives.

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!