The Scrutiny Debugger webinar on April 9 will show how instrumentation-based access to firmware variables can support real-time debugging, calibration, datalogging, and HIL testing without relying on a debug probe.
Our Scrutiny Debugger webinar on Thursday, April 9, 2026, will show Elektor viewers how instrumentation can be used to debug, visualize, and test C/C++ embedded applications without relying on a debug probe.
After publishing a January overview of the tool, we’re bringing Pier-Yves Lessard back for a live session focused on real-time embedded work, where stopping the application is often a bad idea or simply not an option.
About Pier-Yves Lessard
Lessard is a software engineer based in the Montreal area and the author of Scrutiny. In his earlier Elektor article, he linked the technique to real embedded work in areas such as power converters and EV motor controllers.
Pier-Yves Lessard will host the Scrutiny Debugger webinar.
What Is Scrutiny Debugger?
The project documentation describes Scrutiny as an instrumentation-based system built around an embedded library, a Python server, and a client that can read and write variables, graph signals, and interact with the target over links such as serial, CAN, and TCP. That makes the Scrutiny Debugger webinar relevant to developers working on motor control, robotics, power converters, and other embedded control systems that need live visibility without intrusive probe-based debugging.
What the Webinar Will Cover
Lessard will explain how Scrutiny can be used for monitoring, calibration, testing, and automation, and he will walk through the tool’s client-server architecture, firmware description workflow, Python SDK, and embedded datalogging features. The session will also cover real-time variable access, plotting, hardware-in-the-loop testing, and event-triggered capture for fast transient conditions that ordinary polling may miss.
Giveaway
This event also includes a giveaway of three copies of The CAN Bus Companion. That title is a good fit here because Scrutiny can operate over CAN as well as other common embedded links, and the book focuses on practical CAN-bus development, debugging, and testing with Arduino Uno and Raspberry Pi.
Event Details
The Scrutiny Debugger webinar takes place on Thursday, April 9, 2026, at 16:00 CEST (10:00 AM EDT / 14:00 UTC).
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