Rust in Color: Embedded LED Art
2025-08-29 , FORGE (Room 1)

Rust + LEDs = 💜. Rust empowers us to think at a high-level for low-level systems. Join me in how I made an LED cube with embedded Rust (no-std & no-alloc), and how you could too.


Rust + LEDs = 💜

Rust empowers us to think at a high-level for low-level systems.

Join me in how I made an LED cube with embedded Rust (no-std & no-alloc):

  • Define LED layouts as geometric shapes like lines, grids, etc
  • Write patterns like graphics shaders: compute colors for each LED based on position and other data
  • Drive any any LED chipset, use traits as powerful abstractions
  • All without any standard library or heap allocations

What would you make with LEDs and Rust?

https://blinksy.dev

Hi I'm Mikey. ☀🌱🌙🐈💜