#4 Who does our team follow to keep up with tech?
The people and creators our colleagues keep coming back to.
Welcome to edition #4 of Inside IoT!
In our previous edition, our LMT IoT team shared individual videos, articles, posts and webinars that had caught their attention. This time, we’re looking at the people behind the content they regularly follow.
Some explain what is happening inside a circuit. Others explore programming, investigate consumer technology, or consider the decisions behind connected products.
We asked our team which names they keep coming back to. Perhaps their recommendations will introduce you to an explanation, perspective or project worth exploring.
Happy reading!
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Following other engineers and creators offers a chance to see how they approach a design, investigate a problem or test an idea.
Peteris Duka, Senior Testing Engineer at LMT IoT, recommends Robert Feranec for his clear explanations of electronics and the practical challenges involved in designing boards and products.
His recommendation is one of several from our team. Together, they reflect interests ranging from the behaviour of individual components to the decisions involved in developing a connected product.
Here are a few of their regular follows, in no particular order.
#1 Electronics explained through real hardware
Pēteris recommends Robert Feranec for his explanations of electronics and the problems that arise when designing boards and products. His channel includes PCB design tutorials, schematic reviews and technical conversations with other engineers.
Juris Ormanis, Senior Electrical Engineer at LMT IoT, also includes Feranec among the people he follows. Sometimes, the same explanation finds its way onto more than one colleague’s list.
Reinis Valters Kobitjevs, Application Engineer at LMT IoT, recommends several creators whose work explores electronics through projects and experiments.
GreatScott! publishes electronics tutorials and practical builds, with circuits and components explained through the project taking shape. AlphaPhoenix explores science through experiments and the process of building equipment to investigate a question. EEVblog looks closely at electronics through teardowns, measurements and fault-finding.
Juris also follows GreatScott!, alongside Eric Bogatin, whose teaching, presentations and videos cover signal integrity, power integrity and measurement practices.
These recommendations offer different ways into a technical subject. You can follow a build, examine a measurement, or spend more time understanding why a board behaves as it does.
#2 Understanding what happens beneath the code
Rūdolfs Arvīds Kalniņš, Firmware Engineer at LMT IoT, shared recommendations spanning programming and electronics.
Ben Eater (https://eater.net/) explains computer architecture by building working systems. His projects include an 8-bit breadboard computer, a computer based on the 6502 processor, and a digital clock. Following the construction lets viewers see how individual components contribute to the behaviour of the whole system.
Laurie Kirk explores low-level software, reverse engineering and security. Her posts look beneath the surface of software to examine how it works and where unexpected behaviour can appear.
Rūdolfs also follows Bjarne Stroustrup, the creator of C++. His talks, writing and resources explore the language, programming techniques and the reasoning behind language design.
For someone working with firmware, these subjects meet in familiar questions: how does the machine execute an instruction? What is the software actually doing? How can a programming language help express the intended behaviour clearly?
The explanations approach those questions from different directions, giving readers several ways to deepen their understanding.
Rihards Balass, Application Engineer at LMT IoT, follows Louis Rossmann and Gamers Nexus.
Rossmann’s content includes component-level repair, diagnostic work and discussions about repairability and consumer rights. Viewers can follow the process of finding a fault, while also exploring the conditions that make repairing a product possible.
Gamers Nexus publishes detailed computer hardware testing, reviews and investigations. Its work includes examining product performance, reliability and the claims made about hardware.
For teams developing technology, this introduces another set of questions.
How does a product perform once someone starts using it? What happens when it fails? Can the owner understand the problem and get it repaired?
Those questions connect engineering decisions with the experience of the person who ultimately depends on the product.
#4 Seeing connected devices in everyday life
Jānis Lindermanis, Product Development Lead at LMT IoT, lists IoT, hardware and smart homes among his interests. His recommendations include three creators who explore connected technology through practical projects and home automation.
Andreas Spiess covers sensors, microcontrollers and wireless projects, including work with ESP32 and LoRa. His videos (https://www.youtube.com/@AndreasSpiess) offer a way to explore how components and connectivity choices behave in a working project.
Everything Smart Home publishes guides, reviews and DIY projects around home automation. Topics include Home Assistant, device integrations and building automations that connect different parts of a home.
Paul Hibbert whose channel is also known as Hibbert Home Tech (https://www.youtube.com/@paulhibbert), brings an informal approach to home automation and connected home equipment.
These channels place devices in the environments where people actually use them. Alongside the technology, viewers encounter questions about setup, compatibility and the usefulness of an automation in everyday life.
For someone developing connected products, that is another perspective worth keeping in view.
#5 Connecting IoT with product decisions
Dāvis Barkāns, Head of LMT IoT Electronics Solutions Division, follows LinkedIn content around IoT and product management. His recommendations include Luka Mali, Yoel Frischoff and Paweł Huryn.
Mali writes about IoT applications, connectivity and the practical work of turning sensor data into useful outcomes. His posts connect developments in the industry with the challenges of deploying connected systems.
Frischoff covers connected hardware, IoT product strategy and industry developments. His IoT News Digest brings together topics such as connectivity, security and the decisions involved in bringing connected products into use.
Huryn publishes product management and AI content through The Product Compass and his LinkedIn profile, including practical guides, frameworks and resources.
Together, these recommendations extend the conversation from how a device works to the product decisions around it: what problem it addresses, how it reaches users, and how its value can be understood.
Our team’s recommendations cover several different kinds of learning. Some creators make a physical effect easier to understand. Others show a development process, examine a product’s limitations, or introduce a useful way to think about a decision.
A good explanation can answer an immediate question and leave you better prepared to ask the next one.
Which person or channel would you add to this list? Share your recommendation in the comments of our original LinkedIn post!