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Why Use Zephyr? A Practical Guide for Embedded Engineers Choosing the Right RTOS
Choosing the right foundation for your next embedded or IoT project can be daunting. As a skilled or intermediate embedded engineer, you know that every tool, abstraction, and framework introduces trade-offs. Whether you’re moving from bare-metal code or evaluating RTOS options for cross-platform scalability, it’s essential to understand the strengths and limitations of each. In…
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How to Balance a Full-Time Tech Job and Learning Advanced IoT Skills
Let’s be honest, keeping up with AI, IoT, and embedded systems while managing a full-time engineering job feels nearly impossible. But it doesn’t have to be. Whether you’re developing smart home devices or integrating predictive maintenance sensors into an industrial system, you need flexible online courses for working engineers that respect your time, deliver practical…
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Getting Started with NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano
The NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano is a powerful single-board computer built with an NVIDIA Ampere GPU for performing a variety of parallel-operation tasks, like cryptocurrency mining and AI. In this guide, we will walk you through the process of flashing NVIDIA’s Ubuntu image to the Orin Nano Development Kit. The Jetson Orin Nano Developer Kit…
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How to Build OpenOCD and Picotool for the Raspberry Pi Pico on Windows
This tutorial will show you how to use Windows to build the Raspberry Pi Pico version of OpenOCD and picotool used to debug programs on the RP2040. Chapter 5 and Appendix B of the Getting Started with Raspberry Pi Pico PDF talk about how to build these tools. However, they focus mostly on building the…
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How to Set Up Raspberry Pi Pico C/C++ Toolchain on Windows with VS Code
This tutorial will show you how to install the Raspberry Pi Pico toolchain on Windows 10 for C and C++ development. Raspberry Pi has a fantastic getting started guide for the Pico that covers installation steps for the major operating systems. On Linux (specifically, most flavors of Debian), you can run a single script that…
