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<Clark Kozak> I'm having a lot of fun with this microbit and I'm wondering about these starter kits that come with a bunch of wires and other cool stuff. Do y'all have any suggestions / tutorials for a beginner?
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<Clark Kozak> like maybe something with a breadboard...maybe no soldering yet
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<K900> Easiest for Rust is probably one of those STM32DISCOVERY
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<K900> +kits
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<K900> And then whatever sensors you can throw on it
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<TimSmall> Clark Kozak: You could consider something like one of these: https://thepihut.com/products/micro-bit-breadboard-adapter and then buy some jumper wires, and whatever type of sensor or other I/O that you'd like to use? Otherwise maybe Raspberry Pi Pico, or one of the WeAct Studio boards.
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<TimSmall> Another tip is to not go super-cheap for the breadboard and wire kits - having a poor connection or open-circuit in a wire or breadboard can waste you a good hour of debugging.
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Only $10.72, that's really cheap as far as development boards with Ethernet go.
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<korken89> firefrommoonlight: I mostly played around with structure to see how to organise a firmware in Rust, it never really came to fruition
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<korken89> I also used it to learn rust and traits back in the day
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<korken89> Was really fun though
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<korken89> I think that one day I'll revisit that, I miss being in drone research sometimes
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<firefrommoonlight> Nice!
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<firefrommoonlight> I'm working on one now. Lots of moving pieces!
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<firefrommoonlight> Even for manual controls
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<korken89> Yeah, it quickly gets big
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<korken89> One day I should go through my old KFly codebase
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<Clark Kozak> TimSmall: if you have any recommendations I'm all ears! As a beginner I'm happy to pay for something that works so I don't have to be concerned with checking the small thing
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<Clark Kozak> K900: and that would require getting a breadboard for the STM32?
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<Clark Kozak> I see some of these kits on Amazon to get started though I don't want to get overwhelemed or get anything that I don't need. Get it piece by piece..
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<Clark Kozak> I like the microbit but i'm totally done to get the discovery board. I saw gator clips and that seems like a goood start? It would be cool to do a breadboard with a blinking led and a solid led, i feel that's a good beginner task
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<K900> Clark Kozak: Not really, the Discovery boards have pre-soldered headers
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<Clark Kozak> I don't really know what the means 😬
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<dirbaio> so you don't have to do ".s()" or anything
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<dirbaio> but the downside is it's not obvious what the u32 means (is it seconds? milliseconds? clock cycles?)
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<dirbaio> this design turned out to be a mistake, because it makes it impossible to write code that's portable across HALs (and makes using the traits harder as well)
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<dirbaio> so all the timer traits are removed in the upcoming embedded-hal 1.0