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Teardowns, field notes, and deep-dives from the engineers doing the work – embedded systems, testing, and the decisions that ship better hardware.
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The True Cost of Building an IoT Device in 2026
Search for “IoT device cost” and you will find pages about app development budgets. Useful if you are building an app. Useless if you…
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How to Validate AI-Generated Firmware.
In September 2025, researchers Seyed Moein Abtahi and Akramul Azim at Ontario Tech University published a paper titled Securing LLM-Generated Embedded Firmware through AI…
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Why Most Embedded Teams Get OTA Wrong
“We’ll add OTA later.” Four words that have cost our clients, collectively, more than any single technical decision we’ve encountered. More than a wrong…
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Why Standard Agile Fails Hardware Teams and the Dual-Cadence Model That actually Works
Standard Agile fails hardware teams because it assumes change is cheap. Software’s cost of change is roughly flat; hardware’s is a step function that…
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A HIL Rig That Needs More Than One Engineer to Operate Has Failed
Every embedded team that runs a HIL bench has the same conversation at some point. A regression slips into the firmware. The team lead…
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Digital Product Passport for Embedded Devices
The Digital Product Passport (DPP) is a machine-readable, per-device record required under the EU’s Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation (ESPR). For an embedded team,…
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ESP32-S3: The DAC Removal That Breaks Projects Ported From the S2
If you are here because dacWrite() stopped compiling after you moved a project to the ESP32-S3: you are not missing a config flag. The…
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Self-Hosted CI Runners for Embedded E2E Testing
Most embedded teams have CI. Very few have CI that touches hardware. The standard setup compiles the firmware on a cloud runner, runs the…
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SMARC vs OSM vs COM Express vs Chip-Down: The Modular Embedded Platform Decision
Every product programme that outgrows a single MCU hits the same fork: put the compute on a standard module, or design it chip-down onto…
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Rust in Embedded Is Overhyped for 80% of Projects and Undersold for the Other 20%
The Rust-in-embedded conversation in 2026 is two arguments dressed up as one. Half the internet says Rust is finally ready for production embedded and…
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The ESPR Is Coming for Your Embedded Architecture: How European Hardware Teams Should Redesign for Repairability, Modularity, and Circularity
For embedded hardware teams selling into the EU, the Cyber Resilience Act is the regulation everyone is talking about right now. The Ecodesign for…
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How to Choose a Continuous Validation Platform for Embedded Systems
A connected sensor manufacturer we work with bought a six-figure continuous validation platform two years ago. The sales demo was excellent. The proof of…