Battery Packs Lets Talk About Crates Baby

Battery packs: Let's talk about crates, baby

Terms

Battery packs: curated list of rust crates organized around a theme/goal, e.g. making a CLI Tool

Intro

Battery packs try to address the need for default choices for a new project/new developer in rust. if you install cargo-bp can run:

cargo bp list

and see battery packs. Then can add battery packs to project like:

cargo bp add cli

Let's talk about you and me

key idea is that anyone can publish a battery pack. syntax is {name}-battery-pack. So people building stuff like what you wanna build become the ones recommending the battery packs to use

Creating a battery pack

creating is easy: cargo bp new battery-pack and then just follow the prompts. Then you publish to crates.io to get it out there.

Giving it some structure

Can group dependencies/features into categories. ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── ▼ Concurrency Framework (pick at most one)

○ ✦ embassy [embassy-executor, embassy-sync, embassy-time] ○ ✦ rtic [cortex-m, rtic] RTIC — interrupt-driven real-time

▼ Display & Graphics (pick any number) [ ] ✦ display-ssd1306 [embedded-graphics, ssd1306] SSD1306 [ ] ✦ display-st7789 [embedded-graphics, st7789] ST7789 col

▼ Popular Drivers (pick any number) [ ] ✦ display-ssd1306 [embedded-graphics, ssd1306] SSD1306 [ ] ✦ display-st7789 [embedded-graphics, st7789] ST7789 col [ ] ✦ sensor-bme280 [bme280] BME280 temperature/humidity/pr [ ] ✦ sensor-lis3dh [lis3dh] LIS3DH 3-axis accelerometer (I [ ] ✦ usb-device [usb-device, usbd-serial] USB device stack

▼ Hardware Abstraction Layer (pick at most one) ○ ✦ atsamd [atsamd-hal, cortex-m-rt, critical-section-impl, co ○ ✦ esp32 [embedded-hal, esp-hal] ESP32 (Xtensa, WiFi + BT, ○ ✦ esp32c3 [embedded-hal, esp-hal] ESP32-C3 (RISC-V, WiFi ○ ✦ esp32s3 [embedded-hal, esp-hal] ESP32-S3 (Xtensa, WiFi ○ ✦ nrf52832 [cortex-m-rt, critical-section-impl, cortex-m, em ○ ✦ nrf52840 [cortex-m-rt, critical-section-impl, cortex-m, em ○ ✦ nrf9160 [cortex-m-rt, critical-section-impl, cortex-m, emb ○ ✦ rp2040 [cortex-m-rt, critical-section-impl, cortex-m, embe ○ ✦ stm32f0 [cortex-m-rt, critical-section-impl, cortex-m, emb embedded-battery-pack v0.1.0 ↑↓/jk Navigate | Space Toggle | ←/→

Let's talk about all the good things...

this could absolutely become commercially supported by bigger actors and grow into a robust go to tool

Supporting maintainers

If things become a battery pack member and that battery pack is a default for many projects then it helps justify supporting a maintainer financially for big players.