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Hobbyists don’t get full exposure to this, but the reality is that the embedded space is still very much a binary blob landscape. Even relatively popular SDKs l
by rcarmo 11mo ago
Hobbyists don’t get full exposure to this, but the reality is that the embedded space is still very much a binary blob landscape. Even relatively popular SDKs like Expressif and Nordic’s are full of weird proprietary stuff, and it just gets worse as you go into beefier hardware (Rockchip, I’m looking at you).
But yeah, Arduino is in a weird place right now. I knew people there (kind of lost track), quite liked their IDE and how accessible it made a lot of things, but the recent turn on events is just… weird.
- embeddedbert 11mo agoFor Espressif it's only their radio blob. And and community is on a good way for a open source replacement for this. Everything else is top notch open.
- rcarmo 11mo agoYou get two blobs if you use ZigBee :)
- embeddedbert 11mo agoUgh. Haven't touched this yet. But for low power sensor stuff the ESP32 is far away from being my favorite anyway. That's almost all-in Nordic for me.
- pabs3 10mo agoLink: https://github.com/esp32-open-mac/ https://github.com/esp32-open-mac/ Other open firmware: https://wiki.debian.org/Firmware/Open https://wiki.debian.org/Firmware/Open