Amazon FreeRTOS – IoT operating system for microcontrollers

Re:Amazon FreeRTOS – IoT operating system for microcontrollers by roymurdock on Wednesday November 29, 2017 @06:56PM (#15812070)

Richard Barry, founder of FreeRTOS, has joined AWS as a principal engineer, and will continue to support Amazon FreeRTOS. WITTENSTEIN high integrity systems (WHIS) will continue to support and develop OPENRTOS and SAFERTOS, commercial implementations of FreeRTOS for projects that require certification or support.

Richard released FreeRTOS in 2003, and had been working on FreeRTOS in partnership with WHIS since 2006, when they started to provide commercial support for it.

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Re:Amazon FreeRTOS – IoT operating system for microcontrollers by rightos on Wednesday November 29, 2017 @07:09PM (#15812156)

I do hope they'll keep maintaining it - I've been working with an ESP32 lately and the stuff Espressif has been able to build using FreeRTOS as a base is nothing short of incredible. $7 for wifi and bluetooth on a development board.

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Re:Amazon FreeRTOS – IoT operating system for microcontrollers by bschwindHN on Wednesday November 29, 2017 @10:37PM (#15813273)

Agreed, the esp32 has blown me away with what it can do for a few dollars. I have a custom board with the esp-wroom-32 and the temperature sensor I'm using is more expensive than the esp32 module!

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Re:Amazon FreeRTOS – IoT operating system for microcontrollers by pjmlp on Thursday November 30, 2017 @02:10AM (#15813983)

The ESP32 is just like a tiny Amstrad PCW 1512, with dual core and extra network support.

Which for anyone that used a PCW, means it can do a lot.

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Re:Amazon FreeRTOS – IoT operating system for microcontrollers by zonywhoop on Wednesday November 29, 2017 @07:32PM (#15812259)

Additionally they are adding in things like native drivers for WiFi, BLE, and signed updates. AWS Version will be v5.0.

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