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no-std microbit-bsp

An embassy-based boards support package (BSP) for BBC Micro:bit v2

3 releases (breaking)

0.3.0 Jan 28, 2024
0.2.0 Jan 18, 2024
0.1.0 Jan 12, 2024

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microbit-bsp

CI crates.io docs.rs

microbit-bsp is a board support package (BSP) library for the BBC micro:bit v2 and newer.

Features

  • LED display driver with fonts
  • Uses embassy-nrf HAL for peripherals
  • Rust Async/Await

Example application

#![no_std]
#![no_main]

use {defmt_rtt as _, panic_probe as _};

use microbit_bsp::*;

use {
    embassy_executor::Spawner,
    embassy_futures::select::{select, Either},
    embassy_time::Duration,
};

#[embassy_executor::main]
async fn main(_spawner: Spawner) {
    let board = Microbit::default();

    let mut display = board.display;
    let mut btn_a = board.btn_a;
    let mut btn_b = board.btn_b;

    display.set_brightness(display::Brightness::MAX);
    display.scroll("Hello, World!").await;
    defmt::info!("Application started, press buttons!");
    loop {
        match select(btn_a.wait_for_low(), btn_b.wait_for_low()).await {
            Either::First(_) => {
                display
                    .display(display::fonts::ARROW_LEFT, Duration::from_secs(1))
                    .await;
            }
            Either::Second(_) => {
                display
                    .display(display::fonts::ARROW_RIGHT, Duration::from_secs(1))
                    .await;
            }
        }
    }
}

Examples

To run an example:

cd examples/display
cargo run --release

Dependencies

~13MB
~317K SLoC