I spent the evening making progress with writing rust for an ESP32-C3 microcontroller.
✅ I can connect to wifi, awyiss
🚫 I am still figuring out how to get a working SPI config with esp_idf_hal so that I might draw to little SPI-driven display. I am still so very lost at this part. Different hals use different naming conventions, I'm poring through the docs to figure out how to create the thing that the embedded_graphics driver expects as an SPI interface. Ow.
I wish the various embedded rust hals used the same nomenclature for things? Like, the RPi ones are different from the Nordic ones are different from Espressif. I now understand why none of the sample code I look at appears to do this the same way; it depends on your underlying hardware vendor.
Feels like there ought to be some common API or at minimum naming conventions. And then a platform-specific namespace for each platform.
OK, my project log continues.
These sharp memory displays update on a line-by-line basis. It's not fast to update all the lines. So I want to be able to efficiently track dirty lines so I can reset them properly.
Now: figure out how to get that information and hope that it's not on me to calculate which lines got touched in a drawop.
Idan Gazit
