Snake

An implementation of the game snake in Rust, designed to be played on a microbitV2.

This project was used as an introduction to the embedded Rust ecosystem following completion of the vanilla introduction to Rust. It's very much still a work-in-progress, but major functionality is there.

Current functionality:

• read directional input from serial
• move the snake around (and turns will persist)
• eating "nuggets" works and the snake will enlargen

Future work:

• read the accelerometer to control the direction the snake moves
• restart the game automatically on "death"
• address warnings generated by compiler

Building & Flashing

1. Buy the hardware
2. Clone the repo
3. Install dependencies (cargo install --path .)
4. Build & flash (cargo embed --features v2 --target thumbv7em-none-eabihf)

Playing

I run MacOS, so I use minicom to open a serial interface to the microbitV2.

1. Run ls /dev/cu.usbmodem* to find the device identifier (should look something like /dev/cu.usbmodem2102)
2. To open the port, run minicom -D /dev/cu.usbmodem2102 -b 115200
3. And then to move the snake around, use the i, j, k, l keys

Index

1. Vanilla Intro to Rust
2. Discovery AKA Rust on microbitV2