We hope your year is off to a great start! January has been an exciting month for Interrupt — we launched Interrupt Live, a new series where our co-founder and host, Tyler Hoffman, sits down with Interrupt contributors to share their insights and stories. We’d love for you to tune in — see more details here!

Here are the articles, videos, and tools that we’ve been excited about this January.

What have you been reading? Share in the comments or on the Interrupt Slack.

Articles & Learning

• Building a (T1D) smartwatch from scratch
  I honestly think there’s a market for this… tempted to try to build one myself… － Fausto

• Volvo with Julius Gustavsson - Rust in Production Podcast | corrode Rust Consulting
  Really interesting podcast about using embedded Rust in the automotive space! － Pat

• Round-Up of the Yocto Project Summit 2024.12
  A great recap of five insightful talks from the latest Yocto Project Summit. － Pat

• Setting up an LTE link in difficult terrain
  A hands-on guide to establishing a reliable LTE connection in a remote, forested area, covering antenna selection, frequency bands, and overcoming coverage challenges.

• Evolving GitHub Issues (public preview)
  Not embedded-specific, but you might notice your favorite open source projects taking advantage of GitHub’s new issue UI!

• See the code that powered the Pebble smartwatches
  🥳 － Marc

• The hunt for error -22 | Tweede golf
  Chasing down a bizarre, impossible-to-reproduce firmware bug on the nRF9160 — turns out Rust, compiler optimizations, and a sneaky stack-allocated config struct were all in on it. － Pat

• This year in LLVM (2024)
  Highlights from LLVM development in 2024. － Noah

Projects & Tools

• 2 boards you can finally use with Zephyr! - Benjamin Cabé
  The Raspberry Pi Pico 2 is now supported in Zephyr 🥳 ! － Noah

• PSA Certified Products
  A list of PSA certified products! Found this through an announcement that the ESP32-C3 line just got L1 certification.

News & Announcements

• Zephyr Diversity & Inclusion Survey
  The Zephyr Project released a survey to the community on diversity and inclusion, open until February 28th. They are requesting this feedback particularly if you identify with an underrepresented or marginalized group.

Events

• March 11-13 | Embedded World 2025 – Don’t Miss Tyler Hoffman’s Talk
  Embedded World, the world’s leading embedded systems conference, returns to Nuremberg, Germany, from March 11-13. Join Memfault’s VP of Field Engineering and Interrupt author, Tyler Hoffman, on March 12 at 10:30 AM for his talk, From Defense to Offense – A Paradigm Shift in Error Handling. Learn how offensive programming can help you track down elusive firmware bugs, improve security, and debug efficiently in production. Make sure to add it to your Embedded World agenda!