Discover how I transitioned from a tech sales career to becoming an Embedded Engineer. Learn about the challenges I faced, from PCB design mistakes to mastering Embedded Rust, and how perseverance helped me land my dream job in hardware development.
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State machines have an image of being cumbersome and tricky to debug. But this doesn't have to be the case! In this post we show how we use them and why the Rust language makes this so reliable and painless to use.
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For efficient PCB assembly, itβs important to clearly document which component goes where. Traditionally this is done on the silk screen, but we have a different workflow...
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As a PCB designer, the so-called 'ground plane' is your best friend. It makes layout easier, improves EMC performance, and as a bonus you get increased signal integrity. But be carefull to keep the ground plane intact...
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Normally how you test a new board is by flashing a blinky program on it and check whether the LED is blinking. But we don't have a known working blinky binary for this microcontroller, nor do we have a method to flash that imaginary binary. That will be the challenge to tackle for this article.
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At Jitter, we regularly do in-house PCB assembly for small prototype runs. This is a manual process, involving very tiny components, tweezers, and a lot of patience. Some components are smaller than 1x1mm, or have hundreds of pins at a 0.5mm pitch. How do we succesfully solder these tiny parts?
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When I got started in PCB design, layout seemed like the easy part. The CAD software enforces the schematics, so you just need to puzzle everything together until all connections are made. Right?
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AWS IoT facilitates connecting your internet-of-things things to all the other Amazon web services. This makes it easy to build a scalable backend for your IoT project. AWS IoT seems to be built with always-on, Alexa-like devices in mind. But what if you cannot add a Raspberry Pi to your sensor Thing? What if you don't have hundreds of kbytes of flash and RAM to spare?
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A Rust driver crate for the ADXL355 digital accelerometer. This driver accepts an embedded-hal SPI interface and a GPIO OutputPin. It implements the Accelerometer Trait so you can easily obtain both raw sensor data and scaled-to-Standard-gravity sensor data.
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Piano technology is a discipline that studies piano mechanisms and their interaction with the pianist. To investigate interactions between piano keys and pianists, we have installed an array of sensors in an experimental keyboard.
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