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?
Anuj Deshpande
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
Policy and innovation
I was recently thinking about how innovation and government policy sometimes act at odds with each other. To better understand this, I wanted to create a thought experiment and think through how a government (espcially an Indian one) might react.
Let's say we build a small machine that
Versioning hardware is hard
This past week there's been quite some outrage over on the interwebs about the proposed new version of USB and how it's being named. If you don't know much about this, here's a TL;DR
1. USB started off with naming their
Cheap energy
I sometimes think that we spend more time worrying online – or that social media algorithms push worrisome content more aggressively than other. Regardless of the urgency (and the perceived urgency), I think some problems that I see being discussed on my network are –
* fresh water isn't plentiful
* capturing
Apple's eggs are not in one basket anymore
Apple has been manufacturing iPads and AirPods in Vietnam for some time now, and apparently MacBooks and Apple Watches are next. The presence of Apple's suppliers in an economy that's ranked 37th in the world is quite interesting because this has the potential of becoming a