Wonderful, I've been looking resources like this.
It seems to me its difficult to find project ideas for students/new beginners who want to get into the field.
most of the advice I got along the lines of "get an arduino...." or "Here is some device write this complex thing for it". There wasnt any in between tutorials.
I know what you mean, sometimes I wonder how small is really small, what I had in mind when I posted this thread was a project that might help me gain experience in building something related to embedded/IoT devices (routers, phones, low level but not too level that it doesn't have a kernel if that makes sense).
What kind of documentation one would normally need for this sort of project? If the documentation are not great or missing something, is there steps that could be taken to figure out the chips functions in order to implement them?
Thank you, that does sound interesting, and I do have an interest in cybersecurity (just not IT security as in firewalls, incident response ...etc). I saw some interesting stuff being done recently from programming/writing code to emulate a microcontroller/CPU in something like qemu, to power glitching and bypassing protection on some chips to allow accessing serial/debug interface or even some of the mobile baseband reverse engineering/emulation being done by experienced security researchers. but I couldnt tell what kind of experience I would need to have for that sort of job, or where to start, at least I think starting with embedded projects and low level OS-related stuff would someday lead me to that career path.
> my company is hiring and likely will be all year. We probably have a use for a new SWE on the embedded side. Email me at my username at Gmail.
most of the advice I got along the lines of "get an arduino...." or "Here is some device write this complex thing for it". There wasnt any in between tutorials.
much appreciated.