Evan McCord Morse

I grow layered systems from simple working ones. My latest work is a from-scratch, bare-metal Zig platform for low-power scientific sensor networks: custom open hardware, its own build system, HAL, drivers, and a reliable radio transport. Every published number traces back to the benchmark that measured it.

I care about software you can pick up years later and still understand, hardware other researchers can actually reproduce, and data whose origin you can trust. Complex systems that work evolve from simple systems that worked.

Recent work

• WHALE: an open RP2040 firmware platform for scientific sensing, built in Zig with no vendor SDK. This work won the Outstanding Student Presentation Award at AGU's Fall Meeting 2025, selected from thousands of student presentations at the world's largest Earth and space science conference
• limpet: an IO monitor that holds on. Multiplexed serial and MQTT, written in Go
• munch: parsers from plain Zig types, with grammars as comptime declarations