Embedded World 2026: Day 3

The final day of embedded world 2026 included interviews with engineers and startup founders presenting technologies across the exhibition floor, including energy-efficient hardware, enhanced security solutions, and tools for developers and students.

Luchrome Wins Startup Pitch Contest

Brian Tristam Williams spoke with Romain Fuchs, CEO of Luchrome. The French startup won the embedded world Startup Pitch Contest with its display technology.

Luchrome develops a new generation electronic display designed to operate with very low power consumption while avoiding the use of metals and scarce materials. Current production capacity is several thousand units per year, with plans to scale further through partnerships and subcontract manufacturing. 

Their product, Lusight, was recognized earlier in 2026 with the CES Innovation Award in the Sustainability & Energy Transition category. According to Luchrome, the display can consume up to ten times less power than conventional display technologies, making it suitable for battery-powered and autonomous devices.

One of the first applications the company is targeting is smart labeling and asset-tracking systems. Displays could be integrated directly into products to indicate conditions such as cold-chain compliance or expiration status. According to the company, the display can operate across a wide temperature range and has been qualified for more than 100,000 switching cycles.

STMicroelectronics Discusses the STM32 Ecosystem, Security, and Connectivity

At the STMicroelectronics booth, Brian spoke with Romain Ludin, Field Application & Technical Promotions Manager. The discussion focused on security and wireless connectivity within the STM32 ecosystem.

STMicroelectronics presented features addressing regulatory requirements such as the Cyber Resilience Act. STM32 microcontrollers support mechanisms including secure boot, secure firmware updates, and software bill-of-materials generation.

The company also discussed emerging connectivity standards. These include Aliro, an access-control standard combining BLE, NFC, and ultra-wideband technologies. Matter was another focus, with ST supporting both Matter over Thread and Matter over Wi-Fi. For these applications, ST introduced the STM32WBA6 microcontroller with 2 MB of flash to accommodate the Matter protocol stack.

Another section at the booth demonstrated graphical interface development. STM32 microcontrollers with hardware graphics acceleration were used to drive display-based interfaces in embedded systems.

ST also provides the TouchGFX framework, which includes tools for designing graphical interfaces and deploying them on STM32 devices.

The demo combined touchscreens with physical controls such as rotary knobs to illustrate different approaches to user interaction.

Red Pitaya Presents Gen 2 Platform Updates

Another interview took place at the Red Pitaya booth, 4-242, where Brian spoke with Miha Gjura, Field Application Engineer, who appeared in our webinar, Test, Measure and Develop with Red Pitaya. The discussion focused on updates to the Red Pitaya Gen 2.

The latest generation boards introduce improvements to the analog front end, clock synchronization options, and expansion connectivity. Miha also presented X-Channel 2.0, a feature that allows multiple boards to share clocks and triggers so several Red Pitaya devices can be synchronized into larger measurement systems.

During the interview, Miha also mentioned the Elektor development bundle, which pairs Red Pitaya hardware with the book Experimenting with Red Pitaya STEMlab Gen 2 by Dogan Ibrahim. The publication introduces the platform’s measurement tools, including oscilloscopes, spectrum analyzers, and logic analyzers, and gradually guides readers toward FPGA development.

According to Miha, the material is intended both for students learning measurement techniques and engineers who want to explore Red Pitaya for laboratory and professional measurement applications.

Additional Meetings on the Exhibition Floor

Other meetings on the final day included discussions with Andrei Aldea from Texas Instruments about the BeagleBadge, a programmable badge built as a compact development board. The badge features a 107 mm e-paper display, buttons, RGB LED, piezo buzzer, and onboard sensors including an accelerometer, gyroscope, and temperature/humidity monitoring. It runs on a TI AM62L32 Dual-A53 with 256 MB LPDDR4, supporting Linux and Zephyr, and offers LoRa, BLE, and Wi-Fi connectivity. Expansion headers (QWIIC, Grove, mikroBUS) allow users to attach additional modules without soldering.

At the Espressif booth, Gang Chao from M5Stack presented the company’s modular ecosystem built around Espressif microcontrollers. The platform combines stackable hardware modules such as sensors, displays, and connectivity boards for rapid prototyping and IoT development. Demos included industrial automation with I/O modules, relays, sensors, and the AI Pyramid edge-AI device, a smart-home setup running Home Assistant with touch, voice, lighting, and environmental modules, and many more. 

With these final interviews and demonstrations, embedded world 2026 concluded after three days of product announcements, platform demonstrations, and discussions across the embedded systems industry. Connecting the embedded community: 16–18 March 2027 in Nuremberg. Save the date!