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Explore articles from our founder and principal engineer, sharing EES’s approach to problem-solving, innovation, and bringing products to life.

Easy Reasons a Person Can Make Motor Speed Control Fail

Craig Wenger
Sep 1, 2026

Easy Reasons a Person Can Make Motor Speed Control Fail On a powered exercise platform, the user is not a […]

closed-loop control, control loop tuning, embedded systems design, Firmware, motion control, Motor Control, prototyping, PWM, safety-critical design

The Hidden Bug That Fooled Proven Firmware Debugging

Craig Wenger
Aug 19, 2026

A few years ago, we started work on the firmware for a company that builds powered respiratory-protection gear. These are […]

debugging methodology, embedded firmware debugging, embedded-systems, firmware version control, firmware-development, project rescue, reproducible builds, sensor compensation

Is Claude Code really just FORTRAN circa 1957?

Craig Wenger
Aug 4, 2026

The impact of AI tools and AI-generated code on software development cannot be overstated. Lately I’ve heard a lot of […]

AI-assisted development, AI-generated code, code maintainability, compilers, embedded development, LLMs, software engineering, technical debt, verification

Building a Functional Prototype for a Compact Consumer Fluidics Device

Craig Wenger
Jun 3, 2026

Turning a benchtop concept into a believable consumer fluidics device meant solving pump control, sensor interlocks, UI behavior, and packaging […]

consumer electronics, embedded-systems, firmware-development, Fluidics control, hardware design, PCB design, prototyping, sensor integration

How to Hire an Embedded Engineer Without Getting Burned

Craig Wenger
May 19, 2026

How to hire an embedded engineer without getting stuck with fragile firmware, weak testing, bad estimates, or a project structure […]

embedded engineering, embedded-systems, Engineering Hiring, Firmware Testing, firmware-development, hardware design, product development, Project Scoping

Keeping Modular Embedded System Design Coherent

Craig Wenger
May 5, 2026

In modular embedded system design, the controller is rarely the whole problem. The real challenge is keeping firmware, power distribution, […]

Communications Design, consumer electronics, embedded-systems, EMI and EMC, Field Updates, firmware-development, hardware design, product development, system architecture, system integration

Using LLMs for Embedded Debugging to Shorten the Debug Loop

Craig Wenger
Apr 14, 2026

LLMs can help with code generation, but that is not the only place they pay off in embedded work. Using […]

Debugging workflow, embedded debugging, Embedded software, Embedded systems Instrumentation, firmware-development, LLMs, Log analysis, Root cause analysis

Why a Full-System Prototype Matters in Product Validation

Craig Wenger
Mar 31, 2026

Sometimes the prototype exists to prove the idea should not Simple analysis alone does not answer all of the product […]

embedded-systems, engineering risk, field testing, hardware design, product validation, prototype development, prototyping, system integration

When One Digit Cuts Your SPI Throughput in Half

Craig Wenger
Mar 17, 2026

When One Digit Cuts Your SPI Throughput in Half Some embedded problems end with a board spin or a new […]

Data Acquisition, Driver Debugging, embedded Linux, Firmware, FPGA, Hardware Bring-Up, Performance Profiling, SPI, Throughput Optimization