Makerville Conf 2024! 6 months after the last conference, we had our second in-person conference at mBedrock's Pune office! A bunch of new faces, a lot of new old-stories, and great food and beer!
Good times at the Makerville Conf 2023 We had our first in-person conference on 7th and 8th October 2023. We had some great locally brewed beers, amazing food from Pune's best eateries, and some awesome discussions about hardware, India, manufacturing, and more
Why are touch screens killing buttons? Everyone loves a good tactile feel. Fidget spinner craze of 2017 is a prime example of how a simple toy that gives a 'feel-good' physical sensation can go viral. The original iPod with its click-wheel is another such example (I still proudly have my own). So why are
IKEA Skadis for organizing your electronics IKEA Skadis for organizing electronics is a niche community but definitely something you should look at if you want to organize your dev boards
Product Compiler Could the future of products be mass customization? What would we need to build a virtual factory that can build anything from custom and mass manufactured products?
Linux for connected devices needs a different philosophy Linux is one of the greatest open source projects of our time. And the way things stand - it will remain so for a long long time. Why? I think the answer is simple - user choice. A user can choose what filesystem they want to use, what desktop environment
Meetup recordings from Zephyr 101 Link to recordings from Zephyr 101 meetup of IoTPune at Espressif Pune. Amit Kucheria of mBedRock spoke about Zephyr in Products, followed by Anuj Deshpande's session on Zephyr's kernel components
Newsletters to subscribe to if you are into embedded systems List of newsletters for embedded systems and semiconductors
Licensing open-source projects with good and bad faith Thoughts on how to license your open source project with the aim of building a successful business on top of it.
How many types of USB C cables are there? I was chatting with people on the Makerville telegram group recently about USB C and I realized that there's some things about this standard that are misunderstood. I think people believe that with USB C they will have a single cable that can be used for everything, and