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Rust Embedded WG with Jonathan Pallant

Rustacean Station

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Retro Computing and Rust

I remember when computers were simpler, when they only had 64 K of Ram. And I was like, well, there are no retro computers you can really program in Rust. So I wanted to make an open source computer that was fairly simple,. easy enough for one person to understand it's not very fast. It doesn't have a lot of RAM. That project kicked off 2017, 2018, when I was just getting into Rust. And that project was called the monotron and what that ended up being was a Texas Instruments microcontroller. We had eight color video, sort of a crude text mode we had sound. And I could get a little bit of wave table synthesizer going to

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