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Founded in 2008, ByteSnap Design is an award-winning embedded systems design consultancy, offering a comprehensive range of services across the electronic product development lifecycle.

A highly skilled team of over 40 hardware and software engineers, our expertise spans several sectors, including IoT, automotive, industrial, medical, and consumer electronics.

The engineering consultants on the ByteSnap Editorial Team share their knowledge and practical tips to help you streamline your product development and accelerate designs to market successfully.

With their deep technical expertise and practical experience, they aim to provide valuable insights and actionable tips to guide you through the complex world of electronic product design and development, to help you bring innovative, reliable, and secure electronic products to market quickly and cost-effectively.

2024 Electronics Industry Predictions

2024 Electronics Industry Predictions from ByteSnap’s Engineering Consultants Happy New Year! Read our 2024 electronics industry predictions – discover which AI trends are likely to disrupt the tech sector – including autonomous taxis and AI enabled-integrated circuits… 2023 was an eventful year in the tech sector, where AI went mainstream with the explosion of language […]

Industrial IoT development for Industry 4.0 solutions

This guide on Industrial IoT explores the core solution components of IoT device design (electronics, embedded firmware, embedded systems, microcontrollers, sensors, and actuators), machine-to-machine connectivity, data analysis, machine learning, artificial intelligence, and automation. Table of Contents Introduction – What is Industry 4.0? The 4th industrial revolution, referred to as Industry 4.0, is pretty much part […]

UK Government Greenlights CE Marking Extension for Industries

A Big Win for Manufacturers as UK Government Greenlights CE Marking Extension for Industries   In a landmark move for UK industries, the Government has announced an indefinite CE marking extension. This decision will stand to significantly reduce bureaucratic hurdles and associated costs for companies looking to introduce their products to the market. Read on […]

FreeRTOS vs Linux for Embedded Systems

Which operating system is best suited for your embedded systems project – FreeRTOS or Linux? FreeRTOS and Embedded Linux are two popular options for operating system provision in embedded systems. But which should you choose for your electronics product design? In many cases, the decision about which system to use is preferential, as software engineers […]

ByteSnap’s Long Standing Commitment To Green Technology

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Did you know, ByteSnap has been in the green technology space since 2010? We‘ve been helping companies in the UK and beyond to accelerate their EV charging infrastructure and develop smart energy systems for a number of years, which supports the safeguarding of our planet. Our work has ranged from developing a control system for […]

Developing Products for Smart Home Systems? Do This

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3 expert tips to help you optimise your smart home system design projects Happy Smart Home Day! Here are our top development tips for designing products for smart home systems. 1 Give consideration to energy demand response when designing new products In the future, energy providers will need to better balance provision of electricity, requiring […]

5 Linux Development Tips for a Happy Life

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Five quick Linux development tips to help with programming productivity Happy Birthday, Tux! It’s the 32nd birthday of the Linux operating system this month. From the inauspicious beginnings of a message posted on a UNIX forum by young Finnish software engineer Linus Torvalds back in 1991, Linux is now part of the technology mainstream. It’s […]

Top 9 Visual Studio Extensions for Software Engineers

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The best Visual Studio extensions to help streamline your software development Trying to figure out the best Visual Studio extensions?  Read our recommendations for the best ones to help accelerate your programming. Most programmers developing complex programs will use an integrated development environment (IDE) to take advantage of its many useful features. Many choose Visual […]