There’s a couple of terms people use to describe that final sample product phase before they mass produce. In hardware, you might call it the production verification test (PVT), or first articles. For Pickup we’ve borrowed a term from the music industry. The golden master is that last perfect pressing of a record or CD… Continue reading Golden slumbers
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Debugging hardware is hard
If you want a very technical illustration of why, as they say, hardware is hard, follow along as I debug a communications problem between Pickup’s two main chips. Day 1 I was working on the bus interface between Pickup’s MCU (the STM32) and its WiFi radio (an ESP32) only to find that the STM32 UART… Continue reading Debugging hardware is hard