4min chapter

 Rustacean Station  cover image

Rust Embedded WG with Jonathan Pallant

Rustacean Station

CHAPTER

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

00:00

Get the Snipd
podcast app

Unlock the knowledge in podcasts with the podcast player of the future.
App store bannerPlay store banner

AI-powered
podcast player

Listen to all your favourite podcasts with AI-powered features

Discover
highlights

Listen to the best highlights from the podcasts you love and dive into the full episode

Save any
moment

Hear something you like? Tap your headphones to save it with AI-generated key takeaways

Share
& Export

Send highlights to Twitter, WhatsApp or export them to Notion, Readwise & more

AI-powered
podcast player

Listen to all your favourite podcasts with AI-powered features

Discover
highlights

Listen to the best highlights from the podcasts you love and dive into the full episode