Hey makers, hackers, and electronics folks of the fediverse, what’s your go-to small cheap dev board that ISN’T an ATmega (too small) or ESP32 (too cursed)? I’m asking because I’m writing a gadget-device framework in Rust, and would like to port it to the most popular dev boards.
@jpm@DamonWakes oh, hired an ex cop that used it to make spy equipment. FFS, do they not know their customer base and opinions about government surveillance?
@mitka@jpm That's the one. The finicky power requirements and Wi-Fi problems of the Pi 4 haven't done them any favours either, but it's mostly the spy cop thing and their embarrassing response to the resulting criticism.
@jpm I am curious as to the nature of this ESP32 curse of which you speak? <eyes a couple of M5 Atoms still in their packaging, begging to be hooked up>
@chockg@dmakovec so the “cursed” aspect of the ESP32 is you’re pretty much locked in to their toolchain and their choice of tools. If you’re ok with the tools they supply, they work fine. The problems come when you need to customise the tools they provide (eg upgrading to GCC 10 to support emojis in identifiers), or roll your own tools (eg using Rust from the ground up), because the documentation is very light on details.
I already know about embedded-hal and friends, the idea is that this will build on top of it, providing more of the application-level features and patterns that normally need to be developed by you every time
@TT_392 the idea is that this builds on top of embedded-hal, providing a bunch of common functions that all embedded devices expose. Eg a SPI peripheral is connected to a SPI bus, each peripheral has its own GPIO pin that controls NSS, and only a single device on the bus can have their NSS pin asserted at a time. A I2C peripheral is connected to an I2C bus, each peripheral has its own unique I2C device ID, and only a single device can be talking on the bus at a time. A UART has an asynchronous stream of bytes coming in, that you plug into some kind of parsing function that then sends a complete message for further processing.
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