Blues University

A primer for beginners on embedded development and the IoT. The first in our Blues University series.

A brief introduction to the wireless connectivity options available when building an IoT product.

How a breadboard works, what each row connects to, and how to wire your first components — no prior electronics experience needed.

Get to know common interfaces used when developing with sensors in embedded products.

Learn about strategies that can help enhance the power efficiency of your embedded applications.

Learn how to write and deploy your first firmware to an Arduino device.

An introduction to embedded software development — the hardware, IDEs, communication protocols, and debugging tools you'll use, how to choose between them, and how to set up your first development environment.

Learn more about why C is such a popular language for embedded development and how it's accessible even to Python, JavaScript, or Go developers.

A beginner's guide for using serial logs to debug embedded programs.

An overview of debugging techniques for programs deployed to an STM32 microprocessor.

Learn more about web services and why they are vital as a pathway to the cloud in the IoT.

A developer's guide to the six most-used IoT transport protocols — HTTP, MQTT, TCP/IP, UDP, CoAP, and Matter — and how to choose between them.

An introduction to the how and why of syncing your IoT data with the cloud.

A developer's guide to JSON structure and data types, plus how to query and transform JSON with JSONata.