Golioth is headed to the Hackaday Superconference this weekend!

Jon Beri, Chris Gammell, and Mike Szczys are headed for Pasadena this weekend for the Hackaday Superconference! After a hiatus of several years, we’re excited to get back out into the hardware community and this has become something of a can’t miss event for that crowd.

This is the first time the three of us will be there showcasing Golioth. We’d love to discuss what our next-gen device management can do for you IoT fleet. Let us know you’ll be there using the DevRel email, so we don’t miss a chance to discuss in person.

Open Source RTOS on a Connected ePaper Badge

To kick off the con this Friday we’re presenting our developer training as a Supercon workshop. It focuses on getting started with the Zephyr RTOS.

We’ve been polishing our approach to training all year and this is the culmination of that work. A month ago Chris wrote about the Kasm “container in a browser” experience we’re using to pre-install all the build tools. We’ll be using that approach this weekend so that attendees can be up and compiling within minutes of starting. The workshop will build some muscle memory on the compiling/flashing process, then dive into Devicetree, Pin Control, working with sensors, and the basics of device/cloud interactivity needed in a successful IoT deployment.

The tickets for the workshop sold out right away. If you’re at Supercon, we’d be happy to go through the training with you during “alley-con”. Find us at any time during the weekend to try it out yourself, or even to get a quick badge demo. If you can’t make it to the conference, you can do a self-guided version of the Golioth Developer Training or sign up for future versions of in-person and remote hardware training.

Super-what?

This is the sixth Hackaday Superconference and the first in-person even following a two-year pandemic hiatus. An intimate gathering of fewer than 500 people, everyone you see there has a fascinating backstory, usually involving (or adjacent to) electronic hardware creation. There’s a workshop on designing your own ASICs, talks on wearables, manufacturing, grant-writing for open-source, and the list goes on. Our own Chris Gammell is presenting on his experience as a one-engineer dev shop. Both Mike and Chris helped to kickstart the conference 6 years ago and we’re thrilled that it’s still such a vibrant gathering of hardware enthusiasts.

Almost everyone brings along demos of what we’ve been working on; you can bank on us having a bunch of Golioth demos in our backpacks. There’s also a custom electronic badge, this year it’s an intricate handheld 4-bit computer, complete with a 12-button input register for shifting in your machine-language formatted commands.

Given that there is an input/output expansion header on this badge, it would be a shame if we made it through the weekend without connecting this thing to the Internet in an interesting way. Hit us up on the Golioth Forum thread for this post if you have some ideas on where we can go with that concept.

Take Us for a Test-Drive

We’re not stopping until we’ve spread the word about Golioth. Device management is the piece of IoT ecosystem that companies keep reinventing–a painful and fraught process. Our Dev Tier is free for the first 50 devices.

As your fleet moves from 10 to 100 to 1,000 devices, you face a growing set of problems with handling the data, command and control of the devices themselves, remote firmware updates, and the big one: making sure it remains secure. Give us a chance to show you how we’ve solved these problems, and many you haven’t even thought of yet.

Head over to the Golioth Console to get your free account, then checkout out the Getting Started docs, or jump into the Developer Training we mentioned earlier. Interested in joining a future in-person or remote training? Sign up here.

Mike Szczys
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.

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