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Build and compile for embedded systems

Mats Tage Axelsson and a whole pile of compiling time.

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Mats Tage Axelsson has spent decades figuring out reasons to use Linux computers while sacrificing real social interactions.

Embedded systems are small, specialised units with a key attribute being their robustness. You can build them for automation tasks, robots and monitoring. You can also boost machine learning and artificial intelligence using an embedded system for extended training sessions out in the field.

With both networking and pins for input and output, you can use embedded systems to monitor weather and soil quality, for example. There’s a huge range of expansion boards that can sense light, sound and gases, enabling them to be used in an almost limitless range

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