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How Helium Does Fast Hardware Design

How Helium Does Fast Hardware Design

In the early days of Helium, we had to make decisions about how to approach hardware development cycles. This included questions like “Do…
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Mike VidalesFeb 16

Bullet-proofing Helium’s embedded C code with Erlang QuickCheck.

At Helium we build and manage end-to-end, smart sensing systems for various industrial and enterprise verticals. This means we have code…spanning all the way from embedded device firmware to Web interfaces, and a bunch in-between. One of the challenges on the embedded side of the system is that testing can be harder because of the constraints of embedded programming. Have you ever had a cable modem or access point need to be rebooted for no reason? Yeah, this is one of the reasons why. I’m going to talk a little about how we at Helium want our devices in the field to ‘just work’ and avoid the ‘just reboot it’ approach to…
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Andrew ThompsonJan 6

Distributed Teams

This: http://blog.goodstuff.im/some_process_thoughts describes a lot of our work-ethic at @helium. We strive to be inclusive, open and…considerate, yet have enough resolve to actually get product out the door in a timely manner. ¶ Distributed teams amplify communication and cultural differences between far-flung people. The best ways I know of how to get better as a team are inevitably through trust, shared goals and a very healthy dose of empathy.
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Marc NijdamJul 20, 2015
The Helium HTTP API and the Arrival of Transforms

The Helium HTTP API and the Arrival of Transforms

We’ve been in closed beta testing with some exciting companies over last several months proving out a variety of Industrial IoT use cases…
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Mark PhillipsAug 6, 2015
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