What is Dojo Five reading in June 2025?
“Dojo” translates to “place of the way” and represents an environment for immersive learning. Here at Dojo 5, we prioritize that learning by encouraging our engineers to always be on […]
Selecting an RTOS, Which Should I Use?
Introduction So, you’re kicking off a new embedded project, congrats! Whether you’re wrangling sensors, spinning motors, or just trying to blink an LED and talk to the cloud at the […]
Making Embedded Communication Reliable: A Reusable COBS Library
What is the issue? Embedded systems often communicate over serial connections like UART, SPI, or USB. These communication channels are prone to issues when binary data gets misinterpreted as control […]
Documentation Done Right: Why Firmware Teams Need Robust Documentation
Why is Documentation so Important? When you are deep in the weeds working on a project, it’s easy to think “There’s no way I could ever forget how this code […]
Best Practices for Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) Product Design
Designing products with Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) technology presents unique challenges that can make or break your embedded project. Project managers overseeing BLE implementations need to understand both the technical […]
How to Align External Firmware Development Teams with your Internal Engineering Process
In today’s fast-paced product development landscape, many companies turn to external firmware development teams to accelerate time-to-market, access specialized expertise, and manage workload fluctuations. However, one of the biggest challenges […]
Nanopb Traps and How to Avoid Them
Intro Protobuf is a language-neutral, platform-neutral extensible mechanism for serializing structured data protocol that Google initially created internally in 2001, now on its 3rd release (Proto 3). Since its release, […]
An Introduction to Rust
Overview So you’ve heard about Rust, a shiny new tool taking people by storm, and now you want to know what the fuss is all about. Rust is a programming […]
Beat the Clock: CI Secrets for On-Time Embedded Systems
Getting Continuous Integration (CI) right in embedded systems development is challenging. It’s a game-changer for meeting deadlines, but only if you nail the tech and the teamwork. Building Your CI […]
Powering Product Roadmaps with Modern Embedded Firmware Development
Product roadmapping is the strategic backbone of innovation, outlining the vision and direction for product development. But embedded firmware development often presents challenges that can slow down this process. By […]
Case Study: Span.IO
Driving Efficiency and Cost Savings with Span.IO and Dojo Five Background Span.IO, a forward-thinking technology company, develops home energy connected and smart electrical panels that ease adoption of clean energy […]
Setting Up Automated Firmware Builds
Why do you need automated firmware builds (sometimes called a Continuous Integration (CI) pipeline) for your embedded project? Oftentimes we have found that customers do not trust their firmware release […]