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How Hardware Startups Use FreeRTOS to Avoid Buying an OS
In episode 37 of Hardware Startups with Fexingo, Lucas and Luna dive into a surprising cost trap that kills young hardware companies: paying for a real-time operating system before you need one. Lucas walks through the case of a smart-lock startup that saved $240,000 in licensing fees by switching to FreeRTOS — an open-source kernel that handles task scheduling, memory management, and interrupt handling for free. They discuss the real tradeoffs: FreeRTOS gives you a minimal scheduler but no device drivers, no file system, and no security stack out of the box. Luna pushes back on whether the…
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