Embedded development has always lagged behind the trends that drive the rest of software development. In some ways, that’s a good thing. There are fewer half-baked third-party libraries to integrate with, for instance. However, there are also some good things left behind that could really benefit embedded developers.

Anyone who knows me very well could probably tell you that I’m a pretty big fan of Particle, a provider of hardware and software components for building internet-connected products (IoT). I love their product suite because they have abstracted the common functions of IoT products into easy-to-use components while still allowing access to all the nitty-gritty details for those […]

Let’s face it, when you’re doing embedded development, you really don’t have a lot of great tools at your disposal. If you’re lucky, you might have a C99-compliant compiler and a microcontroller with floating-point hardware and DMA. If you’re unlucky you might have a microcontroller that doesn’t actually have a stack and a compiler that […]

You may have heard the news: Atomic Object is moving to a new building later this summer.  We’re excited about designing the new space.  For my part, I found an opportunity to try out a technology that I have not worked with before, the wireless networking system XBee.

I’ve written a few posts on using Rust for embedded projects: Rust Sysroots for Easier Embedded Projects Using Rust 1.8 Stable for Building Embedded Firmware Generating Rust Bindings for Embedded Libraries Embedded Rust Right Now! I think they gave a decent overview of a couple of tricky parts, but as always, the devil is in […]