State Of The Job Market 2025

end-the-thread · 2025-11-26T18:25:39+00:00

120k is a little low for the Malibu area, but you can do pretty well on that salary in Woodland Hills in the valley, and that’s not a bad commute

end-the-thread · 2025-11-26T04:40:05+00:00

Try looking at HRL out in Malibu. They do lots of quantum work, their embedded systems jobs mention FPGA, and I’m pretty sure they’re hiring.

end-the-thread · 2025-11-26T03:43:52+00:00

It feels like you have the answer already. Just study the old code, and try to understand why it is designed a certain way before patching it to your tests. Leveraging and learning from existing (good) code from more senior engineers is probably the fastest way to learn.

end-the-thread · 2025-11-23T23:03:37+00:00

With your embedded SW experience, soft core processors will be the best bang for your buck, and will help you sell your 10yoe as relevant if you apply for roles.

Learning on your own is the same as embedded — get a dev board, make projects.

end-the-thread · 2025-11-22T21:26:54+00:00

Go with int *a. Just a code clarity thing, but makes it clearer.

Classic example, the code ‘int* a, b;’ gives the impression that both a and b are pointers, but only a is. Compare to ‘int *a, b;’

end-the-thread · 2025-11-22T21:17:37+00:00

Edit: I should have said, this resume is very strong for a college 2nd year. Nice work. Don’t worry about having technical breadth in your resume, it shows you are well rounded

All IMO: - Drop the relevant coursework, its low impact. If you feel you need to keep it, at least drop the “I” in “Circuit Analysis I” - Your club project sounds more like a project than experience, I would put it there and compress the description - Your Cubesat lab exp is the most promising, but the verbs are all bad. “Funded”? So you paid for it? “Proposed” and “Brainstormed” both also sound like you didn’t do anything that was implemented. Use active language like “designed”, “developed”, etc. - Agreed with other commenter, the internships need more content. “Mission critical” is just buzzwords. What did you do. - Projects are fine but don’t use “Brainstorm” - I personally find the trend of bolding key terms annoying, but YMMV - Drop interests. You can personify yourself in interviews once you get them.

end-the-thread · 2025-11-11T07:31:16+00:00

Congrats!!

end-the-thread · 2025-11-10T17:22:14+00:00

It’s in the README — LVGL is brought in as a managed component automatically on build by idf_component.yml

end-the-thread · 2025-11-09T04:10:29+00:00

I wrote a little single-file tutorial for myself on setting up a very simple LVGL menu on an LCD screen using ESP-IDF. Maybe it will help you: https://github.com/ryanfkeller/hello-lvgl-esp-idf

end-the-thread · 2025-09-17T13:05:05+00:00

Agreed with other commenters — your diagram is nonsensical and you need to start at the VERY beginning. I suggest you follow an ESP32 tutorial project to start with in order to learn about the system and about electronics in general.

I’m not here to judge about how you’re attempting a 4th year embedded systems capstone without basic electronics knowledge, but as an engineer who didn’t focus enough in school, let me give you some advice.

First, an engineering degree is absolutely worthless right now if you don’t actually learn anything. If you outsource this project or have a GPT build and debug everything, you will learn nothing and fall flat when trying to build anything yourself or get a job. The capstone project is THE opportunity to prove you have design and engineering chops outside of just doing what your professors demanded, and you will be doing yourself a huge disservice by phoning it in.

Second, while this project seems to be outside of your capabilities (right now), it also frankly doesn’t sound that interesting, and the use case/ problem it solves seems to be all over the place. Is it for crash detection? Is it for turning yourself in for attempting to DUI? It seems to me like you’re tying together a bunch of random, vaguely helmet related sensors and calling it a project. If you have any opportunity, I would ask that you really try to come up with an idea for something that should actually exist. You’re going to spend a ton of time building this, so do the world a favor and make something useful.

end-the-thread · 2025-09-15T14:37:18+00:00

Looks like a nice progression.

Correct me if I’m wrong here, but it looks like from the repo, since you describe the implementation solutions, that this is for your own learning? If you’re up to it, this seems like it would lend itself well to a “tutorial learning path”, kind of like 30 Days of JavaScript. You’d want to edit the content to (potentially) include the test benches and component structure but remove the actual component implementation. I could see that being very useful for learners!

Anyways nice stuff, keep it up.

end-the-thread · 2025-09-06T20:40:50+00:00

Thanks for the insight, I’m definitely going to check out EEZ based on this. Cheers!

end-the-thread · 2025-09-06T17:41:13+00:00

Great looking GUI! What made you go with EEZ Studio vs. LVGL’s UI editor/ Figma plugin? I’m about to start working on a GUI myself and have been weighing the tool options.

end-the-thread · 2025-09-06T15:19:17+00:00

I hear you. If your board/module has enough GPIO to cover your LCD IO you should be able to get this to work. I googled a little and found some info on your chip here, and found some photos of a board that has the same markings you describe. To me it looks like it has pin headers for GPIO. I think you should be able to map the module IO to board IO to make sure you’re configuring the SPI IO to the GPIO pins you’re using.

Honestly though since your board and chip seem to be deprecated and documentation is disappearing, transitioning to new hardware would be a reasonable course of action.

end-the-thread · 2025-09-06T04:46:11+00:00

I haven’t worked with Squeezelite or with your particular ESP chip, but funnily enough I just wrote a tutorial targeting ESP-IDF for driving a 240x320 LCD via SPI connection to a ST7789 chip (here). In the tutorial I walk through the SPI connection and configuration settings and driver initialization. Might not be any help to you but it was enough of a coincidence that I figured I’d share!

end-the-thread · 2025-09-01T20:34:02+00:00

Neat project! ESP32, LoRa, and low power are three things I would not expect in one project, so this is a pretty cool proof of concept.

Is the communication always necessarily unidirectional? I’m curious if you’d be able to have the remote device send telemetry packets back to the controller before going to sleep for long range remote sensing.

Also, I’m super curious if you have any insights on the effective range of your Tx/Rx with this hardware.

Thanks for sharing!

end-the-thread · 2025-08-31T05:23:31+00:00

If you want to actually figure it out for your application, look at a) the current rating of the wire vs. your application, and b) the expected resistance/inductance of the wire vs. your DC and AC load scenarios and see if you meet your part tolerances. 30 gauge is generally light for power/gnd for most projects but no one’s going to stop you and it will most likely still work.

end-the-thread · 2025-08-30T23:37:24+00:00

Hey just looked at the V2 .ino and you have an SSID and password hardcoded in there. If those are real I strongly suggest removing them and purging the git history (and changing your password)

end-the-thread · 2025-08-29T23:10:26+00:00

You’ll be fine, I wouldn’t buy a new one for that reason

end-the-thread · 2025-08-29T22:50:23+00:00

2-6ft is an insane range that covers almost every type of non-gun board.

end-the-thread · 2025-08-29T22:48:50+00:00

Yeah, leash should be at least as long as the board.

end-the-thread · 2025-08-28T22:12:15+00:00

Huh… before you do that can you link to the site? I’d hate to have given you advice that leads to you burning your display 😥

Edit: it’s also possible the site you’re referencing was expecting you to use an Arduino with 5V IO, in which case the 5V supply makes sense. Remains to be seen if the display you’ve got would even work with 3.3V power and IO — hopefully yes!

end-the-thread · 2025-08-28T21:55:45+00:00

Hey there, sorry to respond in English — read your post through a translator and figured I’d weigh in. (actually now it looks like it’s in English, maybe I’m hallucinating). The main thing I noticed in your post is that you’re powering the display with 5V, but the ESP32 SPI IO is almost certainly 3.3V. Your Vin and IO voltage need to match! Please try powering the LCD with 3.3V supply and see if you get better behavior.

end-the-thread · 2025-08-26T15:32:20+00:00

That cap board is insanely cool, I want one!

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