Hardware Podcasts

173: Everything's Amazing

Embedded.fm · 26 Oct 2016 · 1h 15m

What this episode covers

George Stocker, former VP of Software Development at Jewelbots, discusses his transition from a 10-year career in application development to embedded firmware engineering. He details the challenges of building the Jewelbot, a Bluetooth-enabled friendship bracelet for girls, including porting the Nordic nRF51 SDK, debugging hardware-software interactions, and managing the unique constraints of a hardware startup. Stocker highlights the humbling experience of learning embedded systems from scratch, the insular nature of the embedded community, and the specific technical hurdles of BLE mesh networking and power management.

Most relevant to

early-stage companies

Topics

Mentioned

Products
Jewelbots, S130 soft device
Chips
Nordic nRF51
Tools
IAR, Keil, GCC, OpenOCD, J-Link
Also
Making Embedded Systems, Programming Pearls, Getting Started with BLE

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