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In modern embedded platforms, the ability to selectively enable or disable features is more than a convenience—it’s an essential tool for safe rollouts, rapid iteration, and predictable behavior across hardware variants. Firmware today powers ecosystems that span sensors, edge compute, wireless stacks, camera modules, and cloud-connected workflows. In
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As Engineers, the tools we choose dictate the ceiling of the systems we build. When dealing with a powerful SoC like the Espressif ESP32-S3—with its dual cores, AI vector instructions, and ample I/O the choice of development framework is not merely a matter of preference; it is a
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Introduction Linux powers everything from routers and EV chargers to drones, cameras, industrial machines, and the modern edge-AI stack. But behind every peripheral that "just works" lies a device driver — the thin layer of software that lets hardware talk to the Linux kernel. For new embedded engineers, Linux
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A technical guide to shrinking IoT telemetry without breaking edge systems or cloud pipelines. Introduction IoT and embedded systems generate telemetry that overwhelms traditional networks. Sensor readings, actuator states, health logs, diagnostics, and event traces strain: * Wireless bandwidth * MCU flash wear from local buffering * Cloud ingestion pipelines At Hoomanely, telemetry
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Introduction Many embedded systems behave flawlessly during development. They pass unit tests, survive stress testing, and operate reliably in controlled environments. However, once deployed in the field, they occasionally stop responding without any diagnostic trace. No crash logs, no core dumps, no visible kernel panic. The device simply appears frozen.
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When working with STM32 microcontrollers and external memory configurations, few things are more frustrating than STM32CubeProgrammer failing to recognize your carefully crafted external memory loader. We encountered exactly this issue—and the solution revealed fascinating insights into how STM32's toolchain parses external memory loader files. This post chronicles
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How Hoomanely Leverages RTOS Abstraction to Build Unified Firmware Across Bare-Metal and FreeRTOS Introduction In modern embedded engineering, product families rarely run on a single RTOS. A hardware platform may ship as a bare-metal variant for simple, resource-constrained nodes and a FreeRTOS-based SKU for feature-rich devices, each with unique constraints,
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Hoomanely Context At Hoomanely, our embedded platforms power an ecosystem of modular IoT products where reliability, uptime, and predictability matter more than raw throughput. Our System-on-Module architecture spans sensing, communication and processing nodes, all operating continuously under diverse workloads. Memory allocation is therefore not a theoretical concern. It defines real-world
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Introduction Every embedded Linux engineer eventually reaches the same point: the need for a fully customized, lightweight, reproducible Linux distribution. Prebuilt OS images are bloated; build-from-scratch distros are fragile. Yocto Project solves this by giving you a structured framework to craft a Linux system that is exactly as big as
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Hoomanely is a deep-tech hardware startup building intelligent IoT systems designed to be reliable, predictable, and humane in their interaction with users. Our engineering philosophy focuses on robust embedded design, modular hardware pipelines, and rapid prototyping without sacrificing stability. In our early hardware development cycles, the Raspberry Pi Compute Module