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After reading few chapters of the rust book, I decided that I need a project to keep myself going and excited.

map battle was supposed to be that project, but after the pilot game without another game scheduled there was not much motivation to continue.

I still plan to get back to map battle but I wanted to keep learning rust and I wanted another project.

I found myself with an esp32-s3 board and a couple of 64x32 led matrix, and with a [quick] online search I found Embedded Rust (no_std) on Espressif and impl Rust for ESP32.

So what do I do? I start making esp-visualize!

What does it do? not much yet :D

The idea is to have it query my tasks list from my caldav server and display different types of messages that act as a reminder.

Maybe I’ll allow it to be configured and managed using BLE? I’ll keep getting more ideas as I go I guess, figuring out how to connect to wifi and send HTTP requests took me longer than I thought it would and I’m not fully sure I understand every line of code I have in there, so there is a lot for me to learn about the chip, no_std rust, and how to debug low-level implementation of modules like BLE and WIFI.

I expect this to be a pretty fun and maybe a useful project!