Lab à Part - Blogs

Welcome to KeypMe - our new passwordless authentication product by Olivier on 11/09/2024 13:03

KeypMe is the new Lab A Part product: A Secure and Versatile Passwordless Authentication Solution for the Modern Workplace KeypMe transforms your smartphone as fully-compliant smartcard for easy, secure authentication. No hardware needed.
Tags: keypme

ARM Foundation Model - Free solution to make your first steps on ARM-64bit and ARM Software stack by Olivier on 16/09/2018 14:55

The ARM Foundation model allows you to discover the reference Open Source ARM Software stack (ARM Trusted Firmware, UEFI, Linux Kernel) for free. This blog covers the step to build every software components.
Tags: open-source, uefi, arm-trusted-firmware, linux

The story of porting MicroPython to PolyMCU - first target Nordic nRF52 by Olivier on 27/02/2017 15:23

After writing our tutorial to demonstrate Nordic UART Service using PolyMCU and Gattlib, we were looking for terminal to run on Nordic nRF52. That is when we started to port MicroPython to our PolyMCU framework.
Tags: open-source, bluetooth, nordic, micropython

Writing a BLE server and client for Nordic UART Service using PolyMCU and GattLib by Olivier on 27/02/2017 15:16

Tutorial explaining how to write a Nordic BLE peripheral firmware using PolyMCU and use Gattlib on the host computer to communicate with this device. Bluetooth Nordic UART Service will be used through this tutorial.
Tags: open-source, polymcu, linux, bluetooth, gattlib, cmake, nordic

How to fix Glib warnings or errors with GDB by Olivier on 18/02/2017 18:37

This blog entry explains how we fix the recurring Glib message present in the latest version of [gattlib](https://github.com/labapart/gattlib) using `GDB`.
Tags: gattlib, debugging

Instruction to test/use Nordic Board with PolyMCU - A call for testers & contributors! by Olivier on 14/02/2017 11:08

PolyMCU is one of our Open-Source projects. It unifies MCU Vendor SDKs into a single source tree. We recently updated it to use Nordic nRF5 SDK 11.0.0. Unfortunately, we only have the Nordic nRF52 Pre-DK to test it. It is a call for testers!
Tags: open-source, polymcu, nordic

The birth of GattLib - Solving BLE GATT access on Long Term supported Linux distributions by Olivier on 28/04/2016 14:03

This blog entry explains the reasons why we came to write a new library to access BLE (Bluetooth Low Energy) GATT protocol on Linux. It also cover how the story of how this library was developed with the difficulties we encountered.
Tags: open-source, linux, bluetooth, gattlib, cmake

ARM Foundation Model - Free solution to make your first steps on ARM-64bit and ARM Software stack by Olivier on 24/12/2015 10:11

Added RioT OS support to PolyMCU by Olivier on 11/12/2015 00:42

Story about how RioT-OS has been ported to PolyMCU. Difficulties and how they have been solved. And what are the next steps to move forward.
Tags: polymcu, riot-os, cmsis

Add a new platform to PolyMCU: Use case ST Nucleo L4 by Olivier on 19/11/2015 15:02

Cover the port of STMicroelectronics's STM32 Nucleo L4 to PolyMCU. ST support was not present in PolyMCU before this exercise... Let's see the encountered difficulties during the port and how we solved it.
Tags: polymcu

The importance of the toolchain version (in embedded space) by Olivier on 17/11/2015 12:54

Short in memory space on your tiny micro-controller, mysterious build errors, etc. Have you considered updating the toolchain you downloaded few years ago? This article demonstrates how the toolchain version can affect your firmware.
Tags: polymcu, gcc, llvm

Biometrics 2015 Exhibition - FIDO & AuthAPart by Olivier on 20/10/2015 08:41

About the 2-day Biometric conference in London and the presentation of AuthAPart - our FIDO solution - to biometric companies.
Tags: conference, authapart, google, biometric

Powerful Django development process for your cheap web hosted website by Olivier on 19/10/2015 15:50

Explain why we use Django for our website and also our powerful process to deploy a new version of our website in one command. And because we are still a young startup, everything is in context of saving money!
Tags: django, open-source