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+title: "What we've been reading in July (2024)"
+description:
+  Here are the articles, videos, and tools we've been excited about in July
+  2024, including how to reverse engineer a smartwatch, Rust support in Zephyr,
+  and an in-depth look at the basic building blocks of CPUs. Plus, news of
+  "motor doping" at the Olympics.
+author: gminn
+tags: [roundup]
+---
+
+<!-- excerpt start -->
+
+Here are the articles, videos, and tools that we've been excited about this
+July.
+
+<!-- excerpt end -->
+
+What have you been reading? Share in the comments or
+[on the Interrupt Slack](https://interrupt-slack.herokuapp.com/).
+
+## Articles & Learning
+
+- [**LILYGO T-Halow | CNX Software**](https://www.cnx-software.com/2024/07/24/lilygo-t-halow-esp32-s3-board-long-range-wifi-halow-ov2640-ov5640-camera/)<br>
+  Low cost WiFi HaLoW development board. I haven't seen a lot of adoption of the
+  WiFi HaLoW (802.11ah) standard yet, but it's a really interesting connectivity
+  standard, and I'm excited to see it grow! — Noah
+
+- [**Reverse Engineering a Smartwatch | Benjamen Lim**](https://medium.com/csg-govtech/reverse-engineering-a-smartwatch-a7cec52b29c8)<br>
+  Reverse engineering device firmware is always fun to read about. The
+  manufacturer shipped without read/write protection of the firmware and with a
+  programming interface enabled to allow for this. — Heiko
+
+- [**Standard cells: Looking at individual gates in the Pentium processor | Ken Shirriff**](https://www.righto.com/2024/07/pentium-standard-cells.html)<br>
+  An in-depth look at the basic building blocks of CPUs, standard cells! This
+  article explains in detail the standard cells used to build various components
+  of an Intel Pentium CPU. — Eric
+
+- [**Understanding orphan sections | MaskRay**](https://maskray.me/blog/2024-06-02-understanding-orphan-sections)<br>
+  Nice article explaining a pretty obscure linker warning. — Noah
+
+- [**Best practices in firmware | M0AGX / LB9MG**](https://m0agx.eu/best-practices-in-firmware.html)<br>
+  This is a great article on development practices and lifehacks that apply
+  uniquely to firmware. — François
+
+- [**Introduction to Memory Management in Linux | The Linux Foundation YouTube**](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7aONIVSXiJ8)<br>
+  An introduction to MMUs and Linux from a talk at Embedded Linux
+  Conference 2017. Great overview on how the kernel stitches user memory, kernel
+  memory (logical and virtual), and swap memory. — Eric
+
+- [**USB PD on the CH32V003 | eeucalyptus**](https://eeucalyptus.net/2024-05-13-usb-pd-2.html)<br>
+  Bit-banging USB PD on a $0.10 microcontroller. — Noah
+
+- [**Build an image and perform updates with RAUC on Rockchip | Konsulko Group**](https://www.konsulko.com/rauc-on-rockchip)<br>
+  Pretty cool tutorial that uses RAUC + Yocto to create an updatable Linux
+  system on the Rock Pi 4 single board computer. — Pat
+
+- [**Beating the compiler | Matt Keeter**](https://www.mattkeeter.com/blog/2024-07-12-interpreter/)<br>
+  I might be biased because I’m staring at assembly, but this is a really
+  well-written post about hand-tuning an interpreter in assembly and beating the
+  compiler. — Eric
+
+- [**Memory mapping an FPGA from an STM32 | Andrew Zonenberg**](https://serd.es/2024/07/24/Memory-mapping-an-FPGA-from-a-STM32.html)<br>
+  Fascinating write-up of an open-source FPGA+STM32 system. — Noah
+
+- [**The Elegance of the ASCII Table | Dan Q**](https://danq.me/2024/07/21/ascii/)<br>
+  A historical look at the ASCII table! — Eric
+
+## Projects & Tools
+
+- [**Some useful tools for binary formats | LWN.net**](https://lwn.net/Articles/924133/)<br>
+  A selection of tools that could come in handy when working with various binary
+  data formats. — François
+
+- [**The EM language is dead, long live EM !!! | Blogging Zig•EM**](https://blog.zigem.tech/post-001/)<br>
+  Zig + EM (Embedded programming language) — Matheus Catarino França
+
+- [**Announcing Zephyr 3.7: New Long-Term Support Release of Zephyr RTOS | Zephyr Blog**](https://zephyrproject.org/announcing-zephyr-3-7-new-long-term-support-release-of-zephyr-rtos/)<br>
+  Zephyr released a new LTS with version 3.7.
+
+- [**Beginning of Rust support in Zephyr by d3zd3z | zephyrproject-rtos/zephyr**](https://github.com/zephyrproject-rtos/zephyr/pull/75904)<br>
+  This package implements the bare minimum support needed to build a simple
+  Zephyr application written in Rust.
+
+## News & Announcements
+
+- [**The end of Mbed marks a new beginning for Arduino | Arduino Blog**](https://blog.arduino.cc/2024/07/24/the-end-of-mbed-marks-a-new-beginning-for-arduino/)<br>
+  Big deal: Arduino moving from Mbed to Zephyr. — François
+
+- [**2024 Developer Survey | Stack Overflow**](https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2024/)<br>
+  Biased towards web, but there are still some interesting statistics for
+  embedded developers. — IzidorM
+
+- [**Olympics Officials Work to Prevent Motor Doping in Cycling | IEEE Spectrum**](https://spectrum.ieee.org/motor-doping-cycling)<br>
+  At the Paris games, cyclists have their bikes tested for hidden motors.
+
+## Community Conversations
+
+- [**LinkedIn Discussion — "What resources would you recommend for embedded software?"**](https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:share:7224461861000298502/?actorCompanyId=18978207)<br>
+  Check out the community's recommendations for embedded software resources and
+  add your own.