The Zephyr Podcast

Benjamin Cabé & Fabio Baltieri
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A weekly chat about all things Zephyr RTOS—community news, technical discussions, and more.

  1. 4D AGO

    You Merged My Sister's PR

    Fabio finds Zephyr in an MxL86282  Handling Button Press, Longpress, and Double-Tap with the Zephyr Input Subsystem Bring up of a new display shield using Claude and a feedback loop where the agent actually watches the screen output New driver for qemu ramfb coming up New doxygen aliases to document "driver ops" (example for the CAN Controller driver operations here) Shell readline helper Native SX126x LoRa driver Realtek RTL8721F nRF54LM20B The Zephyr Project at Embedded World Join us on Discord! // #podcast at https://chat.zephyrproject.org

    33 min

  2. FEB 6

    FOSDEM 2026 Recap

    They quit their job to build wearables for cows... using Zephyr! Raspberry Pi 4 redesigned for dual RAM chips Texas Instruments to acquire Silicon Labs for $7.5B Heap canary support for corruption detection ARMv9 PACBTI support for pointer authentication New biometrics subsystem with fingerprint sensor drivers, code samples, emulator MAX42500 combined watchdog and voltage monitor driver Netsol S3A MRAM driver Fast Prototyping Board for RX140 RedMonk blog post: AI Slopageddon and the OSS Maintainers Embedded FM ep 520 on AI in embedded dev Zephyr meetup in Nagoya at the Brother museum FOSDEM talks: Git 3.0 – Evolving Git for the next decade Git workflow for high-stakes projects How to make package managers scream KiCad status update Daniel Stenberg's closing keynote: OSS in spite of AI Join us on Discord! // #podcast at https://chat.zephyrproject.org

    45 min

  3. JAN 30

    Brussels Calling

    FOSDEM (https://fosdem.org/2026/) CI for Doxygen coverage delta checker Doxygen style guidelines CMake optimization with Perfetto ASCII only on documentation (https://github.com/zephyrproject-rtos/zephyr/pull/98214) Motor Control Driver Architecture for Hard Real-Time FOC Applications Forward Database table for Ethernet bridge Counter subsystem now supports 64-bits values BL61x overclock DTS binding examples section Zcompose Join us on Discord! // #podcast at https://chat.zephyrproject.org

    36 min

  4. JAN 23

    Heap Heap Hooray

    Saving flash with the SHELL_HELP macro Dual-band WiFi 6 ESP32-C5 announced - coming to Zephyr soon? AI-generated reports force curl to end bug bounty program New automotive LIN subsystem (Local Interconnect Network) Compiler-based cleanup classes for resource management Malloc vs. k_malloc 9x36 PWM LED Matrix for Framework laptop Dual-ethernet phyBOARD-Atlas (i.MX RT1170) NB-IoT ST87M01 Arduino shield support Newly proposed CAN logging backend Zephyr COBS (Consistent Overhead Byte Stuffing) library (packet framing) gets streaming support FOSDEM 2026 and Brussels Meetup (Jan 30) Join us on Discord! // #podcast at https://chat.zephyrproject.org

    36 min

  5. JAN 16

    Shell Commands for Everything!

    Basic button sample overhaul: now uses Input and LED subsystems for proper debouncing New Power On Self-Test (POST) RFC New Requests module for HTTP GET/POST/PUT/DELETE, including shell commands Standardized Doxygen guidelines now available (CI checks incoming) Benjamin hacking around the M5Stack StackChan robot (touch sensor, servo bus) Cytron Maker Pi RP2040 (motors, servos, piezo) RFC for unified Actuator class - provide feedback (pun intended)! Zephyr running as guest OS on QNX Hypervisor? Driver for ultra-low power (65nA) MAX31331 RTC Support for tiny, high-precision medical temperature sensor (MAX30210) MikroElektronika CAN FD 6 Click shield support (TI TCAN4550) New candump shell command to troubleshoot traffic on console New PWM shell command to get the number of cycles per second for a given PWM controller/channel Wi-Fi Peer-to-Peer support added (nRF7000 validated) New board support for nRF7120 DK (Matter/Wi-Fi) OTP subsystem Upcoming Zephyr Meetup in Brussels (Friday Jan 30, 2026) Join us on Discord! // #podcast at https://chat.zephyrproject.org

    38 min

  6. JAN 9

    Lighting up 2026!

    Zephyr web display experiment MicroQuickJS 10Base-T1S multi drop (boards in Zephyr with support for it) RaspberryPi Pico binary info feature Keychron Q Ultra ZMK Motion 2350 Pro Adafruit Prop-Maker Feather  Framework laptop keyboard Espressif RMT driver ws2812_rpi_pico_pio DMA support TPS55287 features GRVL, a lightweight GUI library for Zephyr-based MCUs NVIDIA hiring Zephyr engineers! Edge Impulse + Zephyr tech talk next week. Join us on Discord! // #podcast at https://chat.zephyrproject.org

    36 min

  7. 12/19/2025

    About Time (and Timing!)

    Rust no longer experimental in Linux Linux Rust CVE The return of the millennium bug The Y2K38 bug will likely impact Paris' metro... will it impact Zephyr? zscilib is looking for a maintainer Pullapprove being evaluated in zephyr-testing GitHub announces ... and unannounced  charging for private runners AmebaDplus FT9001 Macro to approximate heap overhead from Jordan Cleanup classes from Pieter, inspired by Linux kernel HealthyPi crowdfunding campaign A Visual Approach to Devicetree Configuration ESP32-S3-GEEK Sipeed M0S Dock Join us on Discord! // #podcast at https://chat.zephyrproject.org

    44 min

  8. 12/12/2025

    ACTIVE_LOW on 0xC0FFEE

    Robert's experience with Zephyr RTOS libcsp, a library for the Cubesat Space Protocol that's available as a Zephyr module New Biometrics driver class Benjamin's presentation about Cyber Resilience Act Readiness for Embedded Product Makers External GPU support for LVGL Snenseo BLE coffee machine Zephyr Tech Talk next week! A Visual Approach to Devicetree Configuration. YouTube / LinkedIn  Ai-Thinker M61-32S M5Stack NanoC6

    37 min
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A weekly chat about all things Zephyr RTOS—community news, technical discussions, and more.

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  • Creator
    Benjamin Cabé & Fabio Baltieri
  • Years Active
    2025 - 2026
  • Episodes
    22
  • Rating
    Clean
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