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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.
Zephyr

Zephyr does Ethernet Too!

Ethernet support is built in to Zephyr with several different chipsets to choose from. Here's how to add a W5500 Ethernet chip to your project and configure the Zephyr drivers to use it.
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Tools

New Feature: Updating Zephyr settings from the device shell and more!

Now you can set your Golioth credentials from the Zephyr device shell. You also have the option to pull them from the Golioth cloud and automatically send them to the device from a single command on the command line. These new features use the Zephyr settings subsystem where they are stored in flash memory so that they persist after rebooting.
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Firmware

Golioth Zephyr SDK gets a name change and looks to the future

Golioth has migrated the Zephyr SDK to a new URL and we are announcing the changes to our audience so that developers are prepared for the change.
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Data Management

New Feature: Visualizing IoT Data Using Ubidots

Golioth is excited to announce our newest output streams integration with Ubidots. Thanks to this partnership, Ubidots data visualization dashboards are now easy to set up using a pre-configured plugin to access your Golioth device data. Here's how it all works.
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Cloud

How to use Node-RED to control IoT Devices on Golioth

Node-RED makes it easy to connect to Golioth using WebSockets and our REST API. With those in place, you can monitor live data from your devices, and control them via updates to LightDB state data.
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Zephyr

Add Custom Kconfig Symbols in Zephyr

I needed to build 15 sets of the same firmware, but pass three unique variables for each copy. Zephyr has a solution for this: the Kconfig system. You can declare your own custom symbol, then set the value by passing a command line argument at compile time. Here's how to do this with your own projects.
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Cloud

Better IoT design patterns: Desired state vs. actual state

With a bit of planning, you can make sure that your IoT devices stay in sync with the cloud and behave in a predictable way for your users. The concept uses a "desired state" that is watched by the device for changes from the cloud. The device then reports back its actual state as a separate collection of data.
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Cloud

Golioth and Datacake enable device data visualization with a few clicks

Golioth has partnered with Datacake to make it easy to stream data from Golioth devices to beautiful visualization panels on the web. Showcase your IoT data with Datacake!
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