Embedded Rust setup explained

In this episode we get our development environment prepared for building bare-metal Rust projects. Follow along with your preferred editor & hardware as we begin our journey into the landscape of embedded Rust... and check the errata in the pinned comment below if you run into issues!

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Chapters:

0:00 Intro

1:03 Tooling

3:00 Hardware

4:10 Cross compiling

6:07 Bare Metal Rust

8:13 Dependency Management

12:55 Don't panic!()

14:46 Build & Flash

17:30 Debugging with RTT

19:42 Debugging with gdb

22:29 Conclusion

22:54 The Rusty Bandit

References:

Install Rust | https://www.rust-lang.org/tools/install

Microbit v2 Product Spec | https://tech.microbit.org/hardware/

Rust Platform Support | https://doc.rust-lang.org/beta/rustc/platform-support.html

nRF52833 Data Sheet | https://infocenter.nordicsemi.com/pdf/nRF52833_PS_v1.6.pdf

Crates Registry | https://crates.io/

Arm GNU Toolchain | https://developer.arm.com/downloads/-/arm-gnu-toolchain-downloads

The Embedded Rust book | https://docs.rust-embedded.org/book/

"The Book" | https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/index.html

FAQ:

Terminal setup:

- JetBrainsMono Nerd Font : https://www.nerdfonts.com/font-downloads

- Oh-My-Z : https://ohmyz.sh/

- alias ls='colorls'

- Powerlevel10k theme : https://github.com/romkatv/powerlevel10k

- zsh-autosuggestions : https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-autosuggestions

- zsh-syntax-highlighting : https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-syntax-highlighting

See @typecraft_dev : https://youtu.be/wNQpDWLs4To

Playlist:

(All via Epidemic Sound)

Chasing Snakes - Martin Landstrom

Revving - Martin Landstrom

Before Chill - Yomoti

Still on My Mind - Sarah, the Illstrumentalist

Rich and Thick - spring gang

Sorvete de Limao - Martin Landstrom

Will of Minds - Magnus Ringblom

Disc Me Bro - Basixx

Simple Pleasantries - Arthur Benson

Deep Space Samurai - Forever Sunset