Amit Kucheria

🦉Product and Engineering leader
👨‍💻 Linux, Zephyr contributor
👨‍🌾 Farming

[Amit Kucheria @idlethread]

Prototyping with dev boards is underutilized in a lot of cases.

One can fail fast by doing a series of dev board based PoCs before designing your own hardware.

Custom PCB design should be the last step of the HW design journey unless your form factor prevents dev board usage.

[Saurabh Chandra @saurabhchandra]

Working with a founder in the hardware space. With lab results, he felt he was 3 months away from production. After 7 months of trying to field deploy, he now feels he is 1yr away from a product. Hardware doesn’t translate from lab to prod the way software does.

[Amit Kucheria @idlethread]

Given how much AI pervades our daily lives, I find it strange that I still have to decide what "folder" to file a browser bookmark in.

@firefox @googlechrome @brave

[Amit Kucheria @idlethread]

Instead of requesting access to all my SMS and then adding disclaimers, I believe there is a better way.

Tripit did it. An email address.

Statements are digital these days.
I can set up rules to forward any relevant email.
So I am in control of the information.

@tata_neu

[Amit Kucheria @idlethread]

@GergelyOrosz The Magic of Reading by Bill Hill was a chance find on this topic that I ended up enjoying quite a bit.

It taught me a lot about the typesetting, print world and early research to bring it to portable screens.

[Amit Kucheria @idlethread]

@IncomeTaxIndia @nsitharamanoffc @officeofPCM @FinMinIndia @PIB_India Will I get credit for trying continously for an hour? 😕

[Amit Kucheria @idlethread]

When every thing has AI attached to it, why can't my browser find the correct folder to save a bookmark in?

[Amit Kucheria @idlethread]

Baremetal is great to learn stuff or where every cycle matters (<1% of applications).

If you want to to build a modern, connected device, why would you not use a pre-tested, well-integrated stack? 🤷‍♂️

[Anuj Deshpande @anujdeshpandey]

@sahajsarup @idlethread @makerville_io Amit when he sees someone use baremetal or freertos

[Anuj Deshpande @anujdeshpandey]

@sahajsarup @idlethread Might have a quote for the rear side of this t-shirt design we made at the last years conf

Roughly half the @makerville_io community is going to use this is what I've heard

[Sahaj Sarup 🐧 @sahajsarup]

@anujdeshpandey @idlethread @makerville_io Regardless when you started using Zephyr, it was probably because of Amit Kucheria.
Just a rule thumb now 😁

[Amit Kucheria @idlethread]

@sahajsarup @anujdeshpandey @makerville_io 👋

I am totally for vendor-neutral OSes for as long as I can remember.

Doesn't matter how good mbedOS, azure sphere OS, might be. That is the principle at stake. Vendor control encourages bad behaviour.

[Amit Kucheria @idlethread]

@sahajsarup @anujdeshpandey Most patches have landed in 6.18. We do have a few stragglers that we'll land ASAP.

[Akshar Vastarpara @AksharVastarpar]

I think the Indian government should remove the 18% GST on all kinds of electronics development kits.

The people purchasing these kits are researchers, students, and engineers, and they have to bear an unnecessary extra cost compared to other countries.

[Anuj Deshpande @anujdeshpandey]

Wife’s fancy usb c display came in handy
It does pd and display - so I just connected the Uno to it, and we got boot logs and a sign in screen

Waiting for blinkit to deliver a usb c hub that does pd - my usual one is at the office and that’s not going to be used for this anyways

[Nithin Kamath @Nithin0dha]

We started FLOSS/fund in 2024 to give up to $1 million annually to support the development of FOSS (free and open-source) projects globally.

Here's what K said in a post reflecting on the past year, making the case for the Indian government also to fund FOSS for strategic tech sovereignty:

"Actually, no amount of material resources can enable governments to develop, nurture, and sustain complex, high-quality FOSS projects themselves in the way a community of passionate maintainers can. The incentives, DNA, and motivations simply do not align. Realistically, the idea of tech sovereignty cannot be rooted in 'owning' and creating all technology, especially software, from scratch. There is no way but to participate in the collaborative global FOSS ecosystem."

Without open source software, it's impossible for us to realize our digital and economic ambitions. It's in the best interests of both the Indian government and Indian companies to support open source projects that they use and derive benefit from. I can imagine a "sovereign FOSS fund" to support open source projects that are crucial to the country's interests. The same goes for Indian companies with the financial ability to do so. Barring everything else, supporting FOSS is a logical business choice.

I've said this numerous times: without open source software, there would be no Zerodha.

Link to the post in the replies.

[nixCraft 🐧 @nixcraft]

this is all you need to run linux 🐧

[Qualcomm @Qualcomm]

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[Anuj Deshpande @anujdeshpandey]

Who's in Goa and works in hardware?

We are having the @makerville_io conf v4 at @makersasylum this weekend - and would love to have you over for some food and drinks to talk shop!

We have people working at scale with FPGAs, LEDs, PCB manufacturing, firmware tooling and a lot more attending!

[Amit Kucheria @idlethread]

@anujdeshpandey @dhh Welcome to tiling + keyboard workflows.

It seems to do what Regolith does for i3. I've used that for ~5 years on Ubuntu on all my machines.

I liked the slick Omarchy video intro.

Arch + hyprland might be a big move though and need a vacation.

[Zephyr Project @ZephyrIoT]

Thanks to @EspressifSystem India Pvt Ltd for hosting our Pune meetup, to mBedrock & @makerville_io for food & drinks, and to @anujdeshpandey for coordinating the event. Huge appreciation to all the speakers and attendees for making it a great success! 🙌https://t.co/sF58U3BfZS

[Anuj Deshpande @anujdeshpandey]

Next up we have Vagesh Panditharadhya from @PHYTECEmbedded talking about @ZephyrIoT + #LVGL