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#511 – Brewing Electronics with Eli Hughes
- Eli helped Chris out with some Zephyr stuff recently!
- His background is in low level embedded, c, RTOS
- He got FreeRTOS running at a conference after sitting with someone who convinced him to consider an RTOS instead of just a superloop.
- RTOS book
- Traffic analogy
- Pyrotechnics
- Eli was a guest on The Macrofab Engineering Podcast, not too long ago and gave some great background info there as well.
- Transitioning from FreeRTOS to Zephyr
- Eli loved nordic parts
- KConfig and Device Trees
- Nordic tutorials
- Eli has a talk coming up at Altium live about his experience in engineering
- Rick Hartley
- Lee Richey
- “Being a student for the rest of your life”
- What is TZero building? A Tri Clamp based hydrometer that talks over cellular
- Had been a consultant most of his career, at least on the side
- SBIR
- There are companies just diong SBIR grant writing
- Eli met an investor who said, “The product sucks, but the team is great” and became their patron/investor
- Sounds like Gerry Roston, former guest of the show
- Mark Barnhart of NPC
- Jeri Ellsworth episode where she talks about silicon valley.
- Starting narrow but going horizontal
- Saving time by going cellular
- Amper is a company shipping out celluar data to monitor shop floor processes (based out of mHUB)
- Making a flexible solution
- Send all data to the cloud, to cut down on firmware
- “Wifi is free”
- Videos of tri clamps failing on YouTube
- Tzero ships the sensor to the brewers for install, so it’s a very hands-off process (no field support required)
- Glycol (used for cooling) process monitoring is another area they’re getting into
- Wendover productions video about COVID vaccine shipping
- SynBioBeta Conference
- Impossible burger
- “Everyone loves just-in-time (logistics) until things blow up”
- Working relationship with NXP
- Videos for the Freescale cup
- Codewarrior
- After the NXP and Freescale merged, found out about “Pro Support“
- They are like internal mercenaries/paratroopers, for hire out to NXP’s customers
- Eli has been writing about parts that just came out, like the LPC55S69
- For more info about Eli’s company, check out tzerobrew.com
- Find Eli online:
- Twitter @EMH203
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