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Chris Gammell

Developer Success Engineer, Canonical

Chris is in Developer Success at Canonical, working on content and new prototypes related to Golioth. He is a 20 year hardware engineer and has built a range of custom IoT hardware designs as part of his work for Golioth.

114 posts
Hardware

Why build hardware at a software company?

Golioth has built a range of custom hardware to test out many of the aspects of our own IoT offering. These challenges mirror what our customers face with their …

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Chris Gammell
Feb 2, 2026 · 9 min
Culture Golioth

When Rapid Prototyping becomes Rapid Deployment

Modern IoT teams can move beyond rapid prototyping to rapid deployment. By combining LLM-assisted development with Golioth’s device management, connectivity, …

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Chris Gammell
Jan 15, 2026 · 4 min
Culture Prototyping

A Physical Meme Terminal for Distributed Teams

Have you ever wanted to bypass slack and send a meme directly to your co-worker's desk? This hack day project builds on top of work from 2022 and pulls in some …

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Chris Gammell
Dec 23, 2025 · 7 min
Bluetooth Zephyr

Send-when-idle using Zephyr and Golioth Pouch

Bundling data to send when a device is no longer generating new events is an efficient way to operate a low power Bluetooth device. This post explores how to …

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Chris Gammell
Dec 4, 2025 · 7 min
Bluetooth

Bluetooth roaming with Golioth Connectivity

Golioth Connectivity enables Bluetooth devices to 'roam' between gateways out of the box. This post and video explain how Golioth enables Bluetooth fleets to …

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Chris Gammell
Oct 28, 2025 · 7 min
Bluetooth Gateways

Visualizing Bluetooth OTA Firmware Updates

This demo shows a full end-to-end encrypted Over-The-Air (OTA) Firmware Update for a Bluetooth Device from the Cloud using Golioth's Pouch capabilities and . …

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Chris Gammell
Oct 8, 2025 · 5 min
Zephyr

'Zephyr for Hardware Engineers: GDB Debugging'

Debugging a Zephyr program with GDB can be tough for newcomers, especially if they're used to more vertically integrated IDE solutions. Let's get hardware …

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Chris Gammell
Sep 11, 2025 · 7 min
Bluetooth Hardware

Open sourcing the Tikk demo board

The Tikk is a demo board that showcases Golioth's Bluetooth-to-Cloud capabilities. It solders to a ProMicro form factor development board and has LEDs, motor …

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Chris Gammell
Aug 21, 2025 · 5 min