[Media] Rust powered flight radar

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[Media] Rust powered flight radar

So, consider this mix: I have thing for retro-interfaces with monochromatic displays, I wanted to learn rust and do something with sdr radio, I live next to the airport. And that’s how my small radar comes to life 😎

Hardware: ESP32C3, 1.5 inch i2c oled display, some encoder. RTL-SDR V4 running on my local linux machine and small endpoint to serve ADS-B data via http.

Firmware written in rust 2021 edition. Libraries: mostly std and esp-idf-svc + rtos (not necessary, but I wanted to try it)

I’m pretty content with this small project as it is my first attempt to build something in Rust. Now I want to design 3D printable case, do some polishing on software side, and publish it as open source.

I wanted to post video but it says I can not do this in this community, so only pic