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Anyone who has ever attended an electronic dance concert or a nightclub knows that music and vibrant lights go together like a rama lamma lamma ka dinga da dinga dong. Well, a Bay Area-based startup is…

As electronics become ever more pervasive in the automotive, industrial automation and medical device sectors, fault-tolerant electronics sub-systems are becoming a standard requirement. Designing these…

I'm posting a guest blog from Matt Benes of The specified item was not found. on an important if not vital topic; power consumption of wireless systems.  During Kickstarter Week  we saw that the…

Holy moly connected everything explosion at International CES 2015! As the connected home products and autonomous auto announcements took majority of the spotlight (as they should), you always have those…

Its the first official day of CES today (Jan 6, 2015) and the circus is in full swing.  It's hard to miss the big stories of the show because every major media outlet in the world is there and the tech…

I'd like to present real-time kernel: TNeo.TNeo was born as a thorough review and re-implementation of TNKernel. The new kernel has well-formed code, inherited bugs are fixed as well as new features…

I haven't been able to flash-program the board because my only available tool is OpenOCD; I have no other options. Fortunately, OpenOCD is scriptable, so let's make it work.

As we learned during Kickstarter Week modern development boards are amazing tools that have put the power of the microprocessor into the hands of hobbyists and entrepreneurs everywhere. These development…

Connect the unconnected and that's exactly what three cat-loving Ph.D. students at the University of Illinois did with their robotic cat toy that reacts to your cat - yup, and they're claiming (I trust…

The fun never stops during ARM Kickstarter week and our latest interview is with Humberto Evans, the creator of Pantelligent. This is a great story of determination and an interesting business "pivot…

Its ARM Kickstarter week and I must admit that as we dig into all things Kickstarter I am amazed by how much is happening, for those who have long and non-volatile memories, it’s like a Heathkit or Altair…

For ARM Kickstarter Week I interviewed Kaido Kert about his brand new Kickstarter project called Blossom. I was personally interested in this project because I have a couple of highly dysfunctional sprinkler…

It’s fitting that we start ARM Kickstarter Week with a teardown of the Pebble watch. To me the Pebble was a breakthrough hardware product on Kickstarter and it broke new ground in two ways.

For our first interview during Kickstarter Week we decided to start at the beginning of hardware design and look at the development board choices for aspiring Kickstarters. This is a good news scenario…

There are times over the course of an engineer’s career where it can feel like the rate of moving forward comes to a slow crawl or worse a stand still.  This period of slow career growth can strike…

Laura Kassovic has a vision for designing game changing wearables so if you are in the market or about to be then listen up.  Laura is CEO of MbientLab and has her first Kickstarter under her belt;…

Attached is the presentation given at the AES (Audio Engineering Society) 2014 conference in Los Angeles by DSP Concepts on choosing the best processor for your audio DSP application.

I’ve been writing about memory optimization for a few weeks now, both here and on the Cypress developer community site. In all those posts I (hopefully) provide a useful tidbit of information but…

Code name Cerberus Abstract The goal of this project is to produce a stable hovering tricopter. This craft will hover using three motors with three propellers, one of which is mounted on a swivelling piece…

Hyperintelligent NFC Locker of the Future Abstract The team's idea behind the Hyperintelligent NFC Locker of the Future was to reinvent the currently outdated system of rental lockers. Current rental…

I was asked about the issues of using C++ templates in deeply embedded systems. Here is the original question and my answer.