Hello, I'm Cameron Dersham. You can find me on the Internet at pinkhatbeard.com. That's pinkhatbeard.com. I'm also known in the Rust community now as the man of two scarves as of this morning. I'm trying to bring that one back, apparently. So I'm a software

developer who a couple years ago, a year and a half ago, started a hardware company with a couple of friends. And that was a really, really good idea. Because I don't know anything in C or systems level things. We wrote everything in Python because that makes sense. And eventually we figured out something, which was that Python might not

be the answer for everything. And so I decided I was going to learn a real programming language, none of this scripting stuff, and I was going to learn C. And I went and found a book that everyone recommended for C, and I found Rust. And so I've been doing Rust for a little bit, and I have yet to actually write anything that means anything,

really. Except for a little bit of hardware stuff. Because I don't like to do anything the easy way. I decide that, hey, I will try to write hardware stuff with Rust before I've actually written, like, a website or anything with Rust. I make a lot of decisions that are great like that. So there is a gentleman or a person, I don't know anything

about them other than their GitHub handle, who has written a book recently called Discovery It is all about making this thing work, which this is an STM32F3 discovery board. It's a dev board. It costs $15 if you order it from China and take a month to get it,

or it's like $30 if you order off Amazon to get it in a week. So what's cool about this is this is Rust running on bare metal. So it is running bare metal. It's linking some LEDs, which is not that cool until you find out that it's doing that asynchronously. So if I type some words here, and then I type them incorrectly, we will reset it so that

we can type them correctly. You will see that this should start blinking the opposite direction and there was no delay there. Which means it's happening asynchronously. It's beautiful. So the reason I'm giving this talk is because yesterday I said I was

into embedded things and people started asking me questions as if I were some type of authority in Rust and embedded things. So I decided I would do a lightning talk about how I don't know anything about Rust and embedded, because I think that's probably the same as

everyone else in the world with Rust and embedded stuff. It's being kind of made up as we go. There are actually, so to answer a couple of questions I kept getting, there is at least two projects that are real-time operating systems in Rust. One of them is made by the same guy who did this. You can see the GitHub handle here. I will try to make that

bigger so you can find this book also. So he has one RTOS called RTFM, as in real-time for the masses, not as on the other meanings. And so that's one operating system. There's

a lot of work that's being worked on. But there's also a lot of work working on just getting bare metal. And there is someone here who is working on AVR support, which is so you can compile stuff and get it on an Arduino. But like I said, I have no idea how any of that works. And so I would really like is if someone wanted

to help maybe mentor me? I think that would be pretty awesome. And maybe we could do a couple of things for embedded in the impl period, because there's currently as far as I can tell, no working group for any embedded things. And we could make some magic happen there. Mainly I really want to write an LLVM backend to get extensive support, which would mean

that you could use a $3 chip to do amazingness, because cheaper is better than $15. Yeah, so that's pretty much everything. Like I said, you can find me at pinkhatbeard.com. And yeah, that's me.