Hidden program in cheap Android phones turns them into advertising tools from the factory
Bitdefender details Midnight Mimosa, a preinstalled firmware malware found on low-cost MediaTek-based Android devices across 150+ countries. The ana…
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Every Millimetre Is Spoken For in a 2.4 mm BLE Logging Card
A sealed logging card is a thickness problem before it is an electronics problem. Every subsystem sits downstream of one decision: how the millimetr…
Building an Industrial HMI and Edge Controller on STM32 with FreeRTOS and Modbus TCP
Building an Industrial HMI and Edge Controller on STM32 with FreeRTOS and Modbus TCP Industrial control demos are often judged by the screen. The mo…
Прошивка Arduino под капотом
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Device Tree Ownership Is Moving Up Into Firmware
On most embedded Linux products the kernel carries the description of the board. Under Arm's SystemReady Devicetree band it does not: the platform f…
Thermoelectric Energy Harvesting for Batteryless IoT Sensors
Industrial motors continuously reject energy as heat. Under the right conditions, a small part of that heat can power the sensor used to monitor the…
Most Embedded CI Stops One Step Too Early
Software teams have spent years making CI feel normal. A pull request builds automatically. Unit tests run automatically. Static analysis, linting,…
Secure BLE OTA Firmware Updates on nRF5340: Architecture Notes
Firmware updates are one of the places where an embedded prototype either becomes maintainable or becomes expensive to support. The hard part is not…
Firmware Black Box: diagnosing embedded resets in the field
A device that resets in the field is not always the hardest problem. The harder problem is a device that resets, comes back online, and leaves no ev…
Enum Type Safety in C
The C standard allows the programmer to define new types, including enumerated types—or "enums"—that improve program readability and type safety. Th…
First Post: A Little Biography
Hello, my name is Jay. Growing up, I wanted to follow in my dad's footsteps and become an engineer—and I did, just not in the way I originally expec…
Secure Firmware Updates with a Secure Element: Building Trust Into the Bootloader
Imagine your embedded device is deployed somewhere in the field - a smart meter, an industrial sensor, a vehicle ECU. You find a critical bug. You p…
I built an MCP server so AI agents can flash 1,000+ embedded boards
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