Rust Roadmap 2021: Adding a useful dev mode and making it the default

• September 07, 2020
• 495 words
• 3 min

In this blog entry following the Call for Rust 2021 Roadmap items, I shall layout my vision for giving Rust the ability to create debuggable binaries which will also fit in the flash of a microcontroller.

Rust Roadmap 2021: Allowing for arbitrary size integer primitives

• September 06, 2020
• 1309 words
• 7 min

In this blog entry following the Call for Rust 2021 Roadmap items, I shall layout my vision for giving Rust the ability to use arbitrarily sized integer primitives.

Revamping Rust Embedded Error Handling － a case for embedded-error

• August 24, 2020
• 1167 words
• 6 min

In this blog post we'll have a look at error handling in Rust embedded scenarios. How does this work at the moment, what are the user expectations and what can we do to make error handling future proof?

Introducing: The USB-C pill

• August 15, 2020
• 1676 words
• 9 min

In this blog entry I will explore a new excellent and cheap embedded hardware board I came across in the context of embedded Rust. This is done in the hope that people will jump on it and drop the crapadelic boards known as "BluePill" like a hot potato.

A look into ways to implement and share data with interrupt handlers in Rust (Update 1)

• February 29, 2020
• 4338 words
• 22 min

In this blog entry I will explain a bit what interrupts are and they work in embedded systems and compare various interrupt implementation and sharing methods in Rust.

Update 2020-03-06: @jamesmunns has provided a new version of cmim which allows to use the SysTick exception and an adaption of the example for it so I updated this post accordingly.