No I'm not paid by cypress, I just believe in their technology. Been using psoc 3/5 since their preproduction silicon was sampling, because Cypress does a great job of distributing their kits to universities.
My university research lab was funded by Cypress to create a drop in replacement for an 8051 using psoc 5, which became the basic form factor for the freesoc mini.
From there, I thought there would be a good market for psoc-based dev kits in the maker world, cause at that time, the only dev tools were made by Cypress. Since the kickstarter ended, I've noticed a huge uptick in the number of psoc kits coming onto the market.
Alas, I am very much self-employed at this point, and actually competing with Cypress for market share in the dev kit market now that the PSoC Pioneer is out there. The release actually came as a total surprise to me. So now, I'm starting to shift my focus to PSoC education with videos and tutorials and such, because I have a feeling that this will be the next big thing in the hobbyist world once there is some momentum behind it.
The reason I frequent this forum is because its a great source of information about what people are working on in the hobbyist world, and it helps me develop ideas about tutorials and content to serve this community.
So am I a PSoC evangelist? Absolutely, because it made embedded design very easy to learn, while allowing me to go as deep as I wanted.
Am I getting paid by Cypress? I wish. That would make my wife much happier about my employment situation.
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