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Hardware MVP: Why “Start Ugly” Beats Perfect in the AI Age

Building a connected product? Start ugly. Duct tape a dev board to your prototype. Don't worry about enclosures....

Designing and Building An AirTag Clone: A new series from Golioth

Have you ever wanted to build your own Apple AirTag? Join us for a free webinar series (starting April 11) where we walk through how to design and prototype a small, Bluetooth-enabled sensor device using Zephyr RTOS, the nRF52840, and Golioth's new Bluetooth-to-Cloud capabilities.

Provisioning Devices over NFC

There are a hundred ways to provision a device, and with this NFC-based hack day project there are now 101. Follow along as we us a Nordic nRF53 as a writable NFC tag that parses the NDEF message, locates PSK-ID and PSK, then stores those credentials to add the device to an IoT fleet.

Use your J-Link Programmer as a Serial Port for your Device

If you're already using a J-Link programmer in your embedded development, you can use it to interface directly with the target device serial port over the J-Link USB connection. This is extremely handy, especially if your hardware design connects RX/TX pins to the programming header.

Adding sound to the Aludel Elixir based Reference Designs

This post highlights moving code from one Zephyr project to another and all the considerations for code portability.

Manufacturing A Mini-fleet: Provisioning And Updating 10 Thingy91’s

Golioth demonstrates one approach to provisioning IoT devices during manufacturing. Learn some of the challenges you will face with flashing test firmware, generating and passing x.509 certificates to the devices, and using OTA to load final production firmware.

Golioth Design Partners: IoT Solutions for Constrained Devices | 2025 Partner Network

We regularly refer Golioth users to our trusted Design Partners to help design, test, and deploy hardware out into the world. The Golioth Design Partner program has been going for more than 2 years and continues growing. In 2025, we reached 20 listed partners, with others in the wings.

Nordic’s new Thingy:91 X already works on Golioth

The Thingy:91 X is an upgrade to the original Thingy:91 which enables new features like WiFi, additional sensors, upgraded memory partitions, and new connectors to make extensibility a breeze. Best of all, it already works on Golioth!

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