Articles by

Mike Szczys

Mike is a Firmware Engineer at Golioth. His deep love of microcontrollers began in the early 2000s, growing from the desire to make more of the BEAM robotics he was building. During his 12 years at Hackaday (eight of them as Editor in Chief), he had a front-row seat for the growth of the industry, and was active in developing a number of custom electronic conference badges. When he's not reading data sheets he's busy as an orchestra musician in Madison, Wisconsin.

How to Flash a Pre-Loaded Filesystem During Production

Creating a filesystem separates your everyday firmware from other data like machine learning models, images, and binaries. In this post we discuss how you can set up the filesystem to speed up your production and create a flexible system that can be updated on-demand using Golioth's OTA service.

A Settings System for any Bluetooth Fleet

The Golioth settings service is now available via Golioth Connectivity, which supports Bluetooth devices. This allows you to send updates to all your devices, a subset, or a single device, just like other devices using the Golioth Firmware SDK.

Adding Espressif ESP32 to the Golioth Bluetooth-to-Cloud Service

The ESP32 and the product line variants often run Bluetooth alongside Wi-Fi. This post shows how you can use the Bluetooth capabilities of an Espressif chip to talk back to the internet when a Wi-Fi signal isn't the right fit for your application.

Adding SiLabs EFR32BG27 to the Golioth Bluetooth-to-Cloud Service

💡 Golioth Bluetooth-to-Cloud is now known as Golioth Connectivity, which is now out of private access. For...

How to use Zephyr zbus to Communicate Between Threads

If you're not using zbus, you probably should be. As the name indicates, this is the Zephyr...

Enabling Bluetooth-to-Cloud on the Renesas DA14695

Golioth's Bluetooth-to-Cloud is now working on the Renesas (Dialog) DA14695, bringing our total vendor count up to 4. This post and video show the device talking to an external sensor and transmitting that data through a standard gateway back to the Golioth cloud, enabling it with the same capabilities as an IP based device on Golioth.

Use the ESP32 AT Binary to Make Any Zephyr Project Wi-Fi Enabled

You can add Wi-Fi to any Zephyr project with an ESP32 running the ESP-AT firmware and a couple of configuration symbols in Zephyr. Let the data flow!

The ESP32 HCI makes any Zephyr board a Bluetooth gateway

Bluetooth HCI enables any chipset to act as a peripheral to a processor running a Bluetooth stack. We pair the ESP32-C3 HCI with a processor running Zephyr to turn Golioth's development platform--the Aludel Elixir--into a Bluetooth gateway.

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