Arduino Joins Zephyr Project

I've had the pleasure of using Zephyr OS on an embedded bluetooth project with a few others. We were using NRF52x chips, with a dev board, and Zephyr was one of the least painful parts of the whole thing. Can absolutely recommend Zephyr in general.

Zephyr is such a great project, I really have enjoyed working with it and the Nordic (NRF5x) is awesome. I think over the next 3-5 years it is really going to get more and more adoption compared to alternatives like freertos or vxworks.

It makes sense if you consider the devices being made now are faster and more complex than ever.<p>Multi core SoCs with different archs and memory protection schemes all sharing a bus. This complexity can be wrangled with device tree and Zephyr readily and has good company with other large silicon vendors being contributors.<p>I for one am looking forward to seeing more contributions and companies joining.

Can anyone explain what this means for Arduino users? The article seems to be a lot of marketing speak, and for people familiar with Zephyr already.

is Zephyr a good option in a project that aims to expose a UART device through BLE using an nrf52x chip? At a glance it seems pretty low level, capable and possibly overkill. If not, what&#x27;s more suitable?<p>Hopefully that makes sense, I&#x27;m new to all of this.