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Lightning Talk: How Zephyr Shaped My Journey as a Trainee in Embedded Software Development

Lightningat Zephyr Developer Summit 2025 · on Wednesday, 2025-08-27· at 16:20· G105 (Level 1)· [career-development]
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A trainee ports an unsupported microcontroller to Zephyr by adding files in the soc folder, creating a device tree entry and implementing a GPIO driver that makes the board blink after two months of work. Repository management uses West to assemble manifests and submodules. The contribution clears CI checks, the first pull request gets merged and an automated bot posts a welcome message.

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  1. 0:00Introduction and background
  2. 1:57The initial learning curve
  3. 3:10Porting hardware to Zephyr
  4. 4:30Navigating the Zephyr ecosystem
  5. 5:11Project repository management
  6. 6:19Contributing to open source
  7. 7:24Conclusion and reflections
  8. 8:05Q&A session
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