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

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 @szcyzs@chaos.social
Mike’s personal site is jumptuck.com