Micro Apple

Playing Bad Apple on a BBC micro:bit

Running

This whole project is written in rust, so you will need the rust toolchain (this was developed on rustc 1.85.0-nightly (dff3e7ccd 2024-11-26))

Using micro_apple_build

1. Install the ffmpeg development libraries for your platform (follow these instructions)
2. Get a copy of the bad apple video, and place it at ./badapple.mp4 (if you don't have an mp4 file, just edit ./micro_apple_build/src/main.rs to look a different path)
3. In micro_apple_build, run cargo run
4. You should then have ./bad_apple_rle.bin appear

Flashing to a micro:bit

1. Plug in your micro:bit
2. Install the thumbv7em-none-eabihf target (rustup target add thumbv7em-none-eabihf)
3. Install probe-rs and flip-link (cargo install flip-link)
4. If you're building within Windows subsystemm for linux, follow the setup section of this to get usbipd setup.
5. If you're on linux, setup udev rules to allow non-superusers to program the microbit using this (n.b. there is a more comprehensive set of rules in the probe-rs docs, which I personally use)
6. In micro_apple, run cargo embed --release --target thumbv7em-none-eabihf. This will flash to the micro:bit. (n.b. there might be a warning that mentions that the core might be halted, I'm not really sure what causes it but you can ignore it).
7. Micro:bit will now play bad apple