Mousefood – Build embedded terminal UIs for microcontrollers

37•orhunp_•2h ago

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dbacar•1h ago

Hi Orhun, Could it be used with CYD (Cheap yellow display) ?

nine_k•50m ago

At the bottom of the page there is a mention of "Phone-OS - A modern phone OS for ESP32 CYD", so apparently it must be supported.

01HNNWZ0MV43FF•32m ago

Today I Learned: https://github.com/witnessmenow/ESP32-Cheap-Yellow-Display

orhunp_•5m ago

Most likely. I just checked and it uses embedded-graphics already which means you can plug in Mousefood directly. The touchscreen might be a bit tricky though, it might need some hacking on the event handler side. But it will most likely work if you map the coordinates to the terminal cells abstraction somehow.

wjholden•49m ago

Cool! I just recently began learning the Raspberry Pi Pico. Could anyone recommend a specific display that I could use with the Pico 2/2W and Mousefood?

IamDaedalus•49m ago

aaaaand this how I learn rust I learned go because of bubbletea and mousefood (which combines my work as an embedded systems programmer and love for torminals) is here

redanddead•37m ago

Oh bubbletea is really cool. Is this how most interactive CLIs are made?

GeertJohan•35m ago

I used bubbletea for a while but quit it because of inconsistencies in the design. Went to ratatui and never looked back. Go and Bubbletea are nice, but rust is much more suited for building tuis.

nine_k•47m ago

«Mousefood - a no-std embedded-graphics backend for Ratatui!»

Hence 100% Rust. Works on ESP32, RPi2040, and even STM32. Several displays mentioned, including e-ink.

GeertJohan•38m ago

This is awesome! I love ratatui, having it available on embedded is very cool! I wonder if it will work with async on embedded e.g. embassy..

orhunp_•11m ago

absolutely, it will work with any other embedded Rust application. The backend only provides a bridge between the embedded-graphics library and the Ratatui widget renderer.

onjectic•34m ago

Reminds me a lot of the UI styles in the Minecraft mod ComputerCraft.

orhunp_•10m ago

we're bringing back those aesthetics!

zokier•26m ago

> Embedded-graphics includes bitmap fonts that have a very limited set of characters to save space (ASCII, ISO 8859 or JIS X0201). This makes it impossible to draw most of Ratatui's widgets, which heavily use box-drawing glyphs, Braille, and other special characters

You have a bitmap display, you can just draw lines and stuff without needing to rely on font-based hacks.

weinzierl•6m ago

Sure, but that's beside the point.

Text based graphics with fancy or custom fonts is just crazy efficient. That is exactly how we got the amazing graphics of The Last Ninja or Turrican on machines with less than 64KiB useable RAM.

Same for more modern embedded devices. If you constrain yourself to text you increase both runtime performance and your developer productivity.

orhunp_•9m ago

Hey all, thanks for the interest to the crate!

I'm currently live on YouTube (doing some maintenance & testing). Feel free to join if you have any questions!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PoYEQJbYNMc