Embracing FOSS in Embedded Development: From Proprietary to Modular and Collaborative
summary
Small consultancy runs 20 active IoT projects (11 people, 4 in manufacture) and says there is 0% chance they could deliver without open source. They prototype with a simple POD prototyping board-and-breakout standard, build firmware on Zephyr, and connect devices (LTE modem, Wi‑Fi, 60 GHz radar, IMU) that must run 10‑year battery life on 256 KB RAM. Device cloud stack uses coap/cbor with CDDL and a Python shim to expose JSON/REST to existing services.
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chapters (12)
- 0:00Introduction
- 2:25Embedded complexity shift
- 4:34Open source in embedded
- 5:40Rapid prototyping
- 7:28Reusing components
- 8:52Hardware standards like POD
- 12:44Device-to-cloud strategies
- 18:35IoT protocol trade-offs
- 21:26Reusable tools philosophy
- 23:00Hardware design reuse
- 24:48Unifying test equipment
- 25:13Q&A
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