This is a summary of most of the Rust projects I’ve worked on in my spare time over the last few years.

2020

• gitsha – This was started some time in 2019 but I finished it in 2020 (even though it’s only a small project). It’s a port of charliesome/gitsha.
• vgm – A VGM file parser. Only supports parsing the headers, not actually playing music at this point.
• hl – CLI tool to highlight patterns in text. Ported from Crystal to Rust.
• Rays – Ray Tracing in One Weekend. It includes a really simple but powerful port of Bob’s Small PRNG.

2019

• gol – Game of Life.
• chip-8 – This is an easier emulator to build than the LC-3 as the intructions are easier to parse.
• aurora – Inspired by projects such as starship, this is a prompt built in Rust to be very fast and easy to configure.
• mandelbrot-set – The mandelbrot set fractal.
• phreaking – Generate Dual Tone Multi Frequency (DTMF) tones.
• farbfeld-view – A farbfeld viewer. farbfeld is a lossless image format which is easy to parse, pipe and compress.
• msws – Middle Square Weyl Sequence pseudorandom number generator. I made this (no_std) to use in oos as a random number generator for doing game of life.
• oos – The beginnings of an operating system, following along the wonderful series Writing an OS in Rust by Philipp Oppermann.
• diff-color – Color diff --unified output.
• hash-data – A library and command line tool for identifying hashes.
• tin-whistle – Takes ABC notation from STDIN and prints out tin whistle diagrams. Ported from Crystal to Rust.

2018

• rs8080 – The beginnings of an 8080 emulator, I later decided this was too hard and tried (and finished) a LC-3 emulator.
• lc3 – An LC-3 emulator. This is a good starting place for playing with emulators.