Author here. Wow, I wrote this article back in college and I was really surprised to see it up here on HN! Pretty cool to see so many talented embedded folks reading my "write to learn" piece :)

This blog post was the start of me figuring out the love of diving in deep to embedded development. Since then, I built a patient monitor device using this makefile-driven build approach. Nowadays, I am re-writing this device using embedded Rust. It has been such a great experience watching the embedded Rust space grow and mature over the years; it wasn't the case several years ago, but now I can build a complex embedded system using stable Rust! I've even got on-device unit tests working, and it's still the same terminal-driven, vim-based workflow I've gotten so familiar with.