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Unlocking Zephyr Debugging

If you’ve been working with Zephyr RTOS, you know how powerful and flexible it is for embedded development. At Percepio, we appreciate Zephyr’s hardware abstraction and kernel architecture, which make it easy to get up and running on a wide range of hardware. Now, we have exciting news for developers looking to improve their Zephyr debugging and performance analysis: we’ve validated that Percepio Tracealyzer works on over 600 Zephyr-supported development boards!

Former Pebble Engineers Discuss The Rarity of Open Source Firmware

It's not every day that commercial firmware gets open-sourced. In this clip, we talk about why it's so uncommon—and why it’s a huge learning opportunity when it does happen. From modern development practices to years of debugging edge cases, open-source firmware gives engineers a rare look inside real production code.

Why Fitness Tracking is Still the Killer App for Wearables

From smartwatches to earbuds, fitness tracking remains the most in-demand feature for wearables. At Pebble, we saw it firsthand—despite a programmable ecosystem, users cared most about step tracking, sleep monitoring, and health data. Now, Apple is integrating fitness features into earbuds instead of launching new devices. Will this shift how people track their health?

The Android Developer's Journey into Hardware Observability

In this article, I walk through how the growth of internal observability tooling for an AOSP device might look like, and the variety of pitfalls one might encounter as they scale from 1s to 10s to 1000s of Android devices in the field, based off my experience talking to AOSP developers and teams, and personally as an Android app developer working on AOSP hardware.

Unlocking the Potential of Industrial IoT: The Role of Battery-Powered Equipment

As industries shift towards enhanced automation and effectiveness, Industrial IoT (IIoT) has converted into a crucial enabler in optimizing operations across warehouses, factories, and distribution facilities. IIoT describes the integration of sensors, devices, plus machines connected through the web to obtain and also exchange information in real time. For these systems to function seamlessly, efficient, reliable, and energy-effective equipment is vital. That is where lithium ion forklift batteries come into play.

Former Pebble Engineers Discuss The Evolution of Pebble's App Sandbox

When Pebble launched its SDK in 2012, it started as a pile of Python scripts. That was just the beginning. Memfault founders, François Baldassari and Chris Coleman, along with Brad Murray of Beeper, discuss the evolution of Pebble’s app sandbox, the challenges of early firmware development, and how a passionate developer community helped shape the platform.