Interview with Lup, creator of PineTime's bootloader
After the interview I did with JF, I am now discussing with Lup Yuen, who created the first bootloader for our beloved PineTime.
Lup: Thanks Nico! I'm Lup (rhymes with "up") from sunny Singapore. I worked in Enterprise IT for 25 years and taught IoT for 5 years. I'm taking a break from work due to bad health (hypertension). Nowadays I'm coding and writing about open-source IoT.
Lup: I have done lots of coding and writing about STM32 Blue Pill. Just as I started coding on Nordic nRF52, the kind folks at Pine64 sent me a PineTime for evaluation. (Thanks TL!) And that's how I started coding on PineTime.
That was the first time I've heard of Pine64, and I'm really glad I'm part of the Pine64 Community. Pine64 cares about making products that we can take apart and learn what makes them tick.
Nico: You started really early, since the watch had barely got announced, first dev kits sent, and the documentation almost inexistent. What motivated you to take on such a challenge and hop on a bus with no driver and no clear destination?
