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Personally in the past ~2 years I have been trying to shift my code base to rust when it comes to robotics and drones software, the biggest issue is the integra

Personally in the past ~2 years I have been trying to shift my code base to rust when it comes to robotics and drones software, the biggest issue is the integration part, most “addons” that you can integrate with the robots like Lidar and other sensors come with the usual SDKs in C/C++ or even python. Additionally, most of X-rust converters don’t really work so you end up rewriting it from scratch.

the__alchemist 3y ago
What sorts of parts? Most should have register-level APIs in the datasheet. That doesn't mean integrating is easy though, compared to the SDK.
- svnt 3y ago
  Beginning by using the register listings in the datasheet is what parent meant by “from scratch.” Anything more would have been reverse engineering.
- tamimio 3y ago
  > What sorts of parts? A lot of parts I had to work with didn’t have it, last one a couple months ago for example was a guided parachute for a drone dropper, I ended up making the driver from scratch that interfaced with the serial io.
xyst 3y ago
What’s wrong with wrapping the C headers in rust? Seems possible to me, although a bit labor intensive depending on the C/C++ lib — https://docs.rust-embedded.org/book/interoperability/c-with-rust.html https://docs.rust-embedded.org/book/interoperability/c-with-...
- tamimio 3y ago
  Nothing is wrong with that, it’s rather a workaround, ultimately I am trying to have one language only including the UI too (been playing with egui),so I don’t have to use JavaScript. https://github.com/emilk/egui https://github.com/emilk/egui
fuzztester 3y ago
>that you can integrate with the robots like Lidar and other sensors come with the usual SDKs in C/C++ or even python. Do the Python SDKs run fast enough? Genuine question. I've done a good amount of Python, but don't have any idea of how suitable it is for embedded stuff, other than knowing that MicroPython exists.

the__alchemist 3y ago

What sorts of parts? Most should have register-level APIs in the datasheet. That doesn't mean integrating is easy though, compared to the SDK.

svnt 3y ago
Beginning by using the register listings in the datasheet is what parent meant by “from scratch.” Anything more would have been reverse engineering.
tamimio 3y ago
> What sorts of parts? A lot of parts I had to work with didn’t have it, last one a couple months ago for example was a guided parachute for a drone dropper, I ended up making the driver from scratch that interfaced with the serial io.

xyst 3y ago

What’s wrong with wrapping the C headers in rust? Seems possible to me, although a bit labor intensive depending on the C/C++ lib — https://docs.rust-embedded.org/book/interoperability/c-with-rust.html https://docs.rust-embedded.org/book/interoperability/c-with-...

tamimio 3y ago
Nothing is wrong with that, it’s rather a workaround, ultimately I am trying to have one language only including the UI too (been playing with egui),so I don’t have to use JavaScript. https://github.com/emilk/egui https://github.com/emilk/egui

fuzztester 3y ago

>that you can integrate with the robots like Lidar and other sensors come with the usual SDKs in C/C++ or even python. Do the Python SDKs run fast enough? Genuine question. I've done a good amount of Python, but don't have any idea of how suitable it is for embedded stuff, other than knowing that MicroPython exists.