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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
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
Cloud Hardware

Posting to Bluesky from a Microcontroller

Bluesky has seen a large increase in its number of users over the last few weeks. To learn more about how the AT Protocol works, we set up a Pipeline to allow …

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Dan Mangum
Nov 21, 2024 · 5 min
Cellular Connectivity Hardware

NAT is the Enemy of Low Power Devices

If you have ever tried communicating with a device on a private network, you may have encountered Network Address Translation (NAT). Because the number of …

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Dan Mangum
Oct 17, 2024 · 9 min
Hardware How To

'Zephyr for Hardware Engineers: GPIO'

Did you know that Zephyr doesn't have a plain old GPIO example? The closest thing is the blinky example that controls LEDs. Why is that? Zephyr expects you to …

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Chris Gammell
Sep 5, 2024 · 9 min
Bluetooth Cellular Connectivity

The Inside Story of the Golioth Bluetooth® Mesh Demo

Take a deeper look inside the Bluetooth Mesh demo that connects to the Cloud via Golioth. Sandra Capri of Ambient Sensors (a Golioth Design partner) walks …

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Sandra Capri
Jun 11, 2024 · 8 min
Firmware Hardware

Managing board revisions in Zephyr

If you ask any seasoned hardware engineer, they will tell you there are only two types of people:

  1. Those who have accidentally swapped TX and RX
  2. And those who …

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Chris Wilson
Apr 9, 2024 · 5 min