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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.

Golioth ESP-IDF SDK Code Walk-through

This video and post showcase how to use the recently announced the Golioth ESP-IDF SDK in your next project. Utilize all of Golioth's excellent features to ESP32 projects built on the ESP-IDF ecosystem.

How to Add Golioth LightDB Observe to any Zephyr application

One of the most useful services in the Golioth Zephyr SDK is the ability to observe data...

How to add Golioth to an existing Zephyr project

This article covers how to add Golioth connectivity and logging to any existing Zephyr project.

ZDS: Connecting Zephyr Logging to the Cloud Over Constrained Channels

Marcin Niestrój helped to implement a solution to IoT logging in Zephyr, and that work is the...

How to add custom shell commands in Zephyr

The Zephyr shell is a powerful interactive tool, but it's not just for the stock features. You can easily add your own shell commands for setting and checking value, and creating custom readouts for in-depth analysis of what is going on with your IoT devices.

Golioth showcased at Embedded World 2022

See the Goioth IoT hardware demos at Embedded World next week in Nuremberg, Germany. You'll find us with the Zephyr Exhibits in Hall 4.

Zephyr quick tip: Show what menuconfig changed and make changes persistent

Menuconfig allows you to search, select, and enable features in Zephyr with ease. What happens when you want to save your configuration? This post shows you how.

How to use Zephyr shell for interactive prototyping with I2C sensors

The Zephyr interactive shell makes it really easy to test out i2c devices before writing any code. This demo shows how to scan for i2c addresses, issue commands directly, and use the sensor shell to poll your devices for all sensor channels available as part of Zephyr's sensor subsystem.

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