Hello Subscriber, welcome to the first newsletter of 2022.
I am fascinated by fitness trackers. Some will nudge you when you have been inactive for a period of time. A lot will tell you how many steps you have taken on any particular day. Some will even track your sleep. The following video from the Arm New Reality Series takes a look at wearable technology.
Learning Content
My first recommendation will teach you C++ and the second will teach you to build an IoT application. Have fun learning. In other news, Arm Education has put its university education content on a GitHub repo. Do check it out if you are in that space.
C++ Programming Essentials
This Professional Certificate program takes you right from the fundamentals and gradually into the powerful, fast and popular object-oriented programming language of C++.
Build Your First IoT Application with Arm
Arm technology powered the smartphone revolution, and now it’s helping power the Internet of Things (IoT). This course will provide you with an accelerated path to gain the knowledge necessary to thrive in a world transformed by innovations in IoT.
Recent Events
I hosted a rehash of my DevFest Lagos workshop in which I talked about TinyML and used a Sparkfun Edge development board for demonstration.
Arm's Stephen Ozoigbo discusses emerging economies and the importance of bridging the digital divide.
Check out this elevator safety system that was entered into the 5th IEEE National Level Project Cometition.
Google announces the Coral Dev Board Micro, a microcontroller board for TinyML. Coral boards come with a Tensor Processing Unit, which is an ASIC. There is an older Coral Dev Board Mini and if you didn't know about it then read about it here.
Meta AI announced Data2Vec, an ML algorithm for text, images, and speech.
Are there any embedded software engineers out there? In a bid to answer that question, I started talking and interviewing various interesting individuals. The recording below is one of those, a highly talented and motivated individual named Kufirre Ebong.
I would like to invite you to join the IoT and Embedded Development Meetup group so you can get notifications of any upcoming webinars or physical event.