Here are the articles, videos, and tools that we’ve been excited about this April.

What have you been reading? Share in the comments or on the Interrupt Slack.

Articles & Learning

• Renode: Easy CI for your Weird Hardware - Sean Cross - YouTube
  A great video from FOSSASIA ’22 that covers the basics of emulators, what they’re useful for, and the Renode emulator and its capabilities. — Eric

• Visual Studio Code for C/C++ with ARM Cortex-M: Part 7 – FreeRTOS | MCU on Eclipse
  Enabling FreeRTOS awareness when debugging in Visual Studio Code. — Noah

• What are random numbers and how they are managed on Linux? - sergioprado.blog
  Great overview of how randomness is generated in computing systems, with a deep dive on random number generation on Linux. — Gilly

• midipix
  Project to bring POSIX natively to Windows. (No cygwin, mingw or wsl hoops!) — Jonathen Beri

• Speeding Up C++ Build Times | Figma Blog
  Interesting article looking at uncached C++ build time speedups. (Spoiler, it’s the headers 😮‍💨) — Noah

• Diving Into Zephyr’s New Hardware Model // Zephyr Tech Talk #014 - YouTube
  Great walkthrough of the new Zephyr hardware model. (We posted a link to a live talk about this on the February blogroll; it’s also a great watch!) Definitely check it out if you’re working on (or interested in!) Zephyr projects. — Noah

For video game fans

• Inside the Super Nintendo cartridges
  A neat look at the hardware inside SNES cartridges. — Eric

• How to cheat at Super Mario Maker and get away with it for years | Ars Technica
  A bit less technical and more on the fun side, but interesting look at Tool Assisted Speedrun (TAS) technique + hardware applied to the Wii U for Super Mario Maker. — Eric

• Real gaming router | KittenLabs
  Hacking a wireless router to play GTA: Vice City by wiring in an external PCIe graphics card, quite a journey! — Noah

Projects & Tools

• BabbleSim | A physical layer simulator
  A physical layer simulator to develop, test, and debug shared medium networks. E.g. simulate a 2.4GHz BLE link between two simulated devices. — François

• elcritch/nesper: Program the ESP32 with Nim! Wrappers around ESP-IDF API’s.
  Program ESP32 chips with the Nim programming language. — Noah

News & Announcements

• State of IoT Software Development Report | A Benchmark Report for Embedded Teams and Leaders
  A new report based on research with 783 people personally involved in developing IoT products and/or embedded electronic systems. Use it to benchmark your project costs, deadlines, and resources against industry norms.

Upcoming Events

• April 29 - May 3 | Embedded Online Conference - Register/Login
  The Embedded Online Conference is back and includes a talk on GDB Deep Dive with Memfault’s own Gillian Minnehan that you can watch for free by clicking here. If you use promo code Memfault2024 by May 10th you’ll receive a $100 discount on the paid pass, giving you access to the full conference and archives for one year! Register here.

• May 7 | IoT Experts Have Their Say on the State of IoT Software
  A panel discussion hosted by François with engineering and technology leaders from Samsara, T-Mobile, Nordic Semiconductor, and Ovyl.

• May 28 & May 29 | Buy Tickets - Hardware Pioneers Max
  Hardware Pioneers is the UK’s largest exhibition and conference dedicated to cutting-edge technologies, solutions, and tools for innovation-driven engineering teams. Memfault will be exhibiting from May 28-29 at Stand #D8 - be sure to swing by for a custom demo featuring our latest product developments and limited edition swag! Use the promo code SPEX50 for a 50% discount applicable to both Standard and Premium tickets. Get your tickets.