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# Hello Rust’y Pico — Part 1: Setting Up Embedded Rust

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## Summary

A beginner-friendly guide to setting up an embedded Rust development environment for the Raspberry Pi Pico. Covers installing the Rust toolchain, adding the ARM Cortex-M0+ cross-compilation target (thumbv6m-none-eabi), generating a project from the official rp2040 template, installing flip-link for stack overflow protection, and using probe-rs to flash and debug firmware. By the end, readers have a blinking LED running on the Pico with RTT logging via a Debug Probe.

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## Questions this post answers

### How do I set up a Rust development environment for the Raspberry Pi Pico?

Install the Rust toolchain via rustup, then add the thumbv6m-none-eabi target for the Pico's Arm Cortex-M0+ chip with rustup target add thumbv6m-none-eabi. Generate a project from the official rp2040-project-template using cargo-generate, install flip-link to catch stack overflows, and install probe-rs-tools to flash and debug via a Debug Probe.

_daily.dev surfaces embedded Rust setup guides like this one for developers building on Pico hardware._

### What does the flip-link tool do in embedded Rust development?

flip-link rearranges a program's memory layout so that stack overflows are detected earlier during development instead of silently corrupting memory. Since embedded systems lack the memory protection of desktop operating systems, a stack overflow can otherwise cause confusing, hard-to-trace bugs; flip-link is installed with cargo install flip-link.

_track embedded tooling like flip-link on daily.dev while hardening Rust firmware against memory bugs._

### How do I flash and run a Rust program on the Raspberry Pi Pico using probe-rs?

Connect the Pico to a Raspberry Pi Debug Probe, then run cargo run inside the generated project, selecting probe-rs as the flashing method during project setup. probe-rs flashes the firmware and starts it immediately, showing the onboard LED blinking and streaming RTT logs to confirm the application is running correctly.

_daily.dev keeps embedded developers current on probe-rs workflows for flashing and debugging Rust firmware._

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