A guide covering Arduino devices such as the Arduino Uno and Arduino Nano. Along with the tools, applications and libraries that will make you a better and more efficient developer with Arduino devices. Also, learn about cool projects that you can build with your Arduino device.
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Arduino Board Components
Checkout the Arduino Starter Kit
Arduino Uno Hardware Specs
- Microcontroller ATmega328P
- Operating Voltage 5V
- Input Voltage (recommended) 7-12V
- Input Voltage (limit) 6-20V
- Digital I/O Pins 14 (of which 6 provide PWM output)
- Flash Memory 32 KB (ATmega328P) of which 0.5 KB used by bootloader
- SRAM 2 KB (ATmega328P)
- EEPROM 1 KB (ATmega328P)
- Clock Speed 16 MHz
Arduino Nano Hardware Specs
- Microcontroller ATmega328
- Architecture AVR
- Operating Voltage 5 V
- Flash Memory 32 KB of which 2 KB used by bootloader
- SRAM 2 KB
- Clock Speed 16 MHz
- Input Voltage 7-12 V
- Digital I/O Pins 22 (6 of which are PWM)
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Simbais a small OS for an Embedded Programming Platform like Arduino. It aims to make embedded programming easy and portable.
Trampolineis a static RTOS for small embedded systems.
DuinOSis Framework (a wrapper) for use the FreeRTOSwith Arduino.
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Wasmerenables super lightweight containers based onWebAssemblythat can run anywhere such as the Desktop to the Cloud and IoT devices, and also embedded inany programming language.
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Tokiois an event-driven, non-blocking I/O platform for writing asynchronous applications with the Rust programming language.
TiKVis an open-source distributed transactional key-value database that also provides classical key-vlue APIs, but also transactional APIs with ACID compliance.
Sonicis a fast, lightweight and schema-less search backend similar to Elasticsearch in some use-cases.
Hyperis a fast and correct HTTP library for Rust.
Rocketis an async web framework for Rust with a focus on usability, security, extensibility, and speed.
Clippyis a collection of lints to catch common mistakes and improve your Rust code.
Servois a prototype web browser engine written in the Rust language.
Vectoris a high-performance, end-to-end (agent & aggregator) observability data platform that puts the user in control of their observability data.
RustPythonis a Python Interpreter written in Rust.
Miriis an interpreter for Rust's mid-level intermediate representation. It can run binaries and test suites of cargo projects and detect certain classes of undefined behavior. Miri will alsowill also tell you about memory leaks: when there is memory still allocated at the end of the execution, and that memory is not reachable from a global static, Miri will raise an error.
Chalkis an implementation and definition of the Rust trait system using a PROLOG-like logic solver.
stdarchis Rust's standard library vendor-specific APIs and run-time feature detection.
Simpleinfrais rep that contains the tools and automation written by the Rust infrastructure team to manage our services. Using some of the tools in this repo require privileges only infra team members have.
Rustlingsis a small set of exercises to get you used to reading and writing Rust code.
Krustletacts as a Kubernetes Kubelet(written in Rust) by listening on the event stream for new pods that the scheduler assigns to it based on specific Kubernetestolerations.The project is currently experimental.
Redoxis a Unix-like Operating System written in Rust, aiming to bring the innovations of Rust to a modern microkernel and full set of applications. Acitvely being developed byJeremy Soeller.
Bottlerocket OSis an open-source Linux-based operating system meant for hosting containers. Bottlerocket focuses on security and maintainability, providing a reliable, consistent, and safe platform for container-based workloads.
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Rust on Chrome OSis a document that provides information on creating Rust projects for installation within Chrome OS and Chrome OS SDK.
Writing an OS in Rustis a blog series creates a small operating system in the Rust programming language byPhilipp Oppermann.
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