Microcontrollers Courses and Certifications

ACCU Conference

Neotron - Writing a Single-Tasking 'DOS' for Arm Microcontrollers, in Rust

A look at how Neotron turns a 32 KB Cortex-M microcontroller into a comprehensible single-tasking computer platform, drawing on operating-system history.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 34 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

media.ccc.de

Beyond BLE: Cracking Open the Black-Box of RF Microcontrollers

Unlock the hidden potential of RF microcontrollers through reverse engineering, focusing on TI SimpleLink MCUs to understand internal radio operations and create custom firmware modifications.

• YouTube
• 40 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Contemporary Electronic System Design

Learn contemporary electronic system design across sensors, mixed-signal circuits, FPGA, and SoC through experiments and design methods.

• XuetangX
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course

tinyML

Continual On-Device Learning on Multi-Core RISC-V Microcontrollers

Explores continual learning on multi-core RISC-V microcontrollers, using latent replays, quantization, and parallel training kernels to adapt TinyML models on-device.

• YouTube
• 25 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Recon Conference

Breaking Code Read Protection on the NXP LPC-Family Microcontrollers

A beginner-level glitch attack bypasses code read protection on NXP LPC microcontrollers to enable flash readout.

• YouTube
• 56 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

Black Hat

Hand Me Your Secret, MCU - Microarchitectural Timing Attacks on Microcontrollers Are Practical

A security talk challenges the belief that microcontrollers resist Spectre- and Meltdown-style attacks by presenting a novel class of timing side channels.

• YouTube
• 41 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

media.ccc.de

Porting Celeste: From PICO-8 to PicoSystem - Indie Game Development on Microcontrollers

A port of PICO-8’s Celeste to a microcontroller explores how tight memory limits shape embedded game development.

• YouTube
• 23 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

media.ccc.de

Unlock the Door to My Secrets - Flash Erase Suppression Attack on Microcontrollers

Explore flash erase suppression attacks on microcontrollers, learning how to bypass debug interface protection and access sensitive data through glitch-based techniques.

• YouTube
• 23 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

EuroPython Conference

DIY Home Automation with Microcontrollers and CircuitPython

Use a microcontroller emulator to try CircuitPython, then see how simple boards can run a floor-cleaning robot and plant-watering system.

• YouTube
• 29 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

media.ccc.de

Beyond BLE: Cracking Open the Black Box of RF Microcontrollers

Delve into reverse engineering of RF microcontrollers, uncovering hidden capabilities of SimpleLink MCUs and learning to modify RF subsystems for custom wireless protocols and SDR applications.

• YouTube
• 40 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Advanced Driving Assistance System

Build and program a smart car with a K60 microcontroller to implement remote control, obstacle avoidance, and tracking while learning autonomous vehicle technologies.

• XuetangX
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course

ZigBee Wireless Sensor Network Technology

Build ZigBee wireless sensor networks with CC2530, covering node programming, sensor acquisition, wireless communication, and intelligent lighting control.

• XuetangX
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course

Arm Education

Embedded Systems Essentials with Arm: Get Started with the micro:bit

Get hands-on with code. Design and simulate embedded systems using Python and the micro:bit.

• edX
• 6 weeks, 3-6 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course (Audit)

USB Forensics and Pentesting

This course will cover USB in detail with an emphasis on understanding USB Mass Storage devices (also known as flash drives or thumb drives). By the end of this course, students will know how to sniff

• INE
• 6 hours
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Nodebots / Hardware

Learn to control simple nodebots hardware devices, read data from sensors, or create IoT projects with Johnny-Five library for Node.js!

• Frontend Masters
• 2-3 hours
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course