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:
  • LinkedIn
  • Twitter @EMH203

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