The Embedded Working Group Newsletter - 29

Highlights

• Last Month in Flott, the monthly newsletter for Flott has been published. Flott is an open source toolkit for motion control software in Rust (designed to run everywhere, including microcontrollers).

• The microbit crate has released v0.9.0, moved under the nrf-rs organisational umbrella, and gained micro:bit v2 support. 🎉

• The switch-hal crate released v0.4.0, adding StatefulOutputSwitch for platforms that support StatefulOutputPin.

• The probe-rs project, which provides debugging and flash programming for a variety of embedded targets, released version v0.11.0, with a number of performance and functionality improvements.

• cortex-m released version 0.7.3, improving ease-of-use for the Delay implementation and fixing native builds on non-x86 hosts.

• cortex-m-rt released version 0.6.15, backporting various fixes to the linker script and helping prepare for a new 0.7 release soon.

• cross has posted a call for help looking for new maintainers: if you use cross and would like to help out, please check it out!

Embedded Projects

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• Windfisch published their Midikraken, an extensible up-to-16-port MIDI-USB-Interface that also will support standalone operation (e.g. MIDI routing) soon. The project uses Rust's RTIC framework to drive a STM32F103 microcontroller board (a.k.a. "Blue Pill") and is open-source and open-hardware. The firmware is in active development and lots of cool new features are down the way! Kits for self-assembly will likely be sold some day in the future.

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.

This is the 29th 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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