microrust-start

A sample application for teaching embedded development using the BBC micro:bit board. The project demonstrates the following concepts:

• PACs, HALs, BSPs...
• RTT
• Panic handling
• Serial communication
• GPIO and interrupts
• Testing

Pre-requisities

For building:

rustup target add thumbv7em-none-eabihf

...and the GNU Arm toolchain.

For running:

cargo install probe-run

For debugging:

cargo install --git https://github.com/probe-rs/probe-rs probe-rs-debugger

...and then visit https://github.com/probe-rs/vscode#vs-code-probe-rs-debugger for instructions on how to install the VSCode plugin.

Running

cargo run --target thumbv7em-none-eabihf

Debugging

Launch via the VSCode debugger.

Testing

cargo test