Embedded

Firebase Rest on Raspberry Pi

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I’ve tried to use Google’s Firebase with the Firebase Admin SDK in my C# project. The good news is that the Admin SDK is easy to use and all you need to do is call two methods. The authentication part is handled by an environment variable which points to some .json file which you download. The bad news is that … Read more

My experience with .NET IoT (so far)

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I haven’t done any embedded development in a while and I was thinking to build myself a remote controlled toy car with video streaming. The project is going to take me a while. To build it I’m going to use C#. I’m already too familiar with Python and a little challenge doesn’t hurt. To interface with the hardware, I’m going … Read more

A quick look at some Embedded Operating Systems

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Real Time Operating Systems

Real time operating systems are designed for real time applications that need to accomplish a certain tasks with as little OS overhead as possible. Tasks like reading the sensors and displaying data.

You could write an infinite while loop to accomplish that but things will get complicated once you have multiple tasks. RTOS provide users with a task scheduler and several methods for synchronizing tasks and inter-task communication, as well as other stuff, not necessarily related to tasks.

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