The Embedded Working Group Newsletter - 11

This is the eleventh newsletter of the Embedded WG where we highlight new progress, celebrate cool projects, thank the community, and advertise projects that need help!

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Highlights

• rustc now supports 4 Cortex-R targets thanks to the work of paoloteti in the Cortex-R space! You can build programs for these targets using nothing but the Rust toolchain
• James Munns gave a talk at RustConf 2018, covering the basics of embedded systems, and how Rust's Zero Cost Abstractions are a perfect match for bare metal systems

Embedded Projects

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• Support for the Arduino MKRZERO board has landed in the atsamd21-rs repository! This is a Board Support Crate for various development board based on the Atmel/Microchip samd21 Cortex-M microcontroller
• Branan Riley is working on the fourth chapter of his Exploring Rust on Teensy series, which will focus on using futures-rs to represent DMA transfers
• Emil Fresk shared some shots of his next Visual Inertial PCB, which includes an STM32 running control algorithms written in Rust!
• Jonathan Pallant added a bare-metal four-channel synthesizer for his Monotron project, and even included a short demo audio clip!

embedded-hal Ecosystem Crates

As part of the Weekly Driver Initiative, crates that are part of the embedded-hal ecosystem are now tracked in the Awesome Embedded Rust repository. Here is a current snapshot of what is available there:

Help Wanted

• Take a minute to check out the wg help wanted issues as labeled on our issue tracker!