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Mousefood – Build embedded terminal UIs for microcontrollers

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Post by orhunp_ » Wed, Jan 28, 2026, 5:20 PM UTC

Mousefood – Build embedded terminal UIs for microcontrollers
github.com

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Post by dbacar » Wed, Jan 28, 2026, 6:25 PM UTC

Hi Orhun, Could it be used with CYD (Cheap yellow display) ?

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Post by nine_k » Wed, Jan 28, 2026, 6:36 PM UTC

dbacar wrote: post #2

Hi Orhun, Could it be used with CYD (Cheap yellow display) ?

At the bottom of the page there is a mention of "Phone-OS - A modern phone OS for ESP32 CYD", so apparently it must be supported.

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Post by wjholden » Wed, Jan 28, 2026, 6:37 PM UTC

Cool! I just recently began learning the Raspberry Pi Pico. Could anyone recommend a specific display that I could use with the Pico 2/2W and Mousefood?

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Post by IamDaedalus » Wed, Jan 28, 2026, 6:37 PM UTC

aaaaand this how I learn rust I learned go because of bubbletea and mousefood (which combines my work as an embedded systems programmer and love for torminals) is here

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Post by nine_k » Wed, Jan 28, 2026, 6:40 PM UTC

«Mousefood - a no-std embedded-graphics backend for Ratatui!»

Hence 100% Rust. Works on ESP32, RPi2040, and even STM32. Several displays mentioned, including e-ink.

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Post by GeertJohan » Wed, Jan 28, 2026, 6:48 PM UTC

This is awesome! I love ratatui, having it available on embedded is very cool! I wonder if it will work with async on embedded e.g. embassy..

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Post by redanddead » Wed, Jan 28, 2026, 6:50 PM UTC

IamDaedalus wrote: post #5

aaaaand this how I learn rust I learned go because of bubbletea and mousefood (which combines my work as an embedded systems programmer and love for torminals) is here

Oh bubbletea is really cool. Is this how most interactive CLIs are made?

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Post by GeertJohan » Wed, Jan 28, 2026, 6:52 PM UTC

redanddead wrote: post #8

IamDaedalus wrote: post #5

aaaaand this how I learn rust I learned go because of bubbletea and mousefood (which combines my work as an embedded systems programmer and love for torminals) is here

Oh bubbletea is really cool. Is this how most interactive CLIs are made?

I used bubbletea for a while but quit it because of inconsistencies in the design. Went to ratatui and never looked back. Go and Bubbletea are nice, but rust is much more suited for building tuis.

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Post by onjectic » Wed, Jan 28, 2026, 6:52 PM UTC

Reminds me a lot of the UI styles in the Minecraft mod ComputerCraft.