DAPLink Alternatives

DAPLink reviews and mentions

• At what abstraction level does the USB MSC class operate?
  1 project | /r/embedded | 16 Apr 2023

  If you just want to transfer data without necessarily using a filesystem on your storage device, check out daplink. It implements a virtual FAT filesystem over USB so you can copy over firmware updates easily.

• DAP-Link Confusion
  1 project | /r/embedded | 19 Feb 2023

  From what I've found that DAP-Link is actually an ARM Mbed open source project to basically be similar to STM32 ST-Link: https://github.com/ARMmbed/DAPLink

• What are some interesting uses of WebUSB you have come across?
  4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 28 Jan 2023

  It's used for flashing the BBC micro:bit in both Microsoft MakeCode (makecode.microbit.org) and the micro:bit Python Editor (python.microbit.org). MakeCode uses it for lots of other devices like MakeCode Arcade too https://arcade.makecode.com )

  It's amazing for students to be able to quickly get a program they've written in their browser onto a device in their hands that can respond to and interact with the real world.

  Also great because with MicroPython and the Python Editor you get a standalone Python environment including REPL that's completely isolated from the PC - schools love it because no matter what the students do they're not going to break the host PCs.

  (The firmware that implements web USB on the micro:bit's USB interface chip is open source, DAPLink https://github.com/ARMmbed/DAPLink - poke

• The design approach to the Zig programming language
  2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 6 Sep 2022

  https://github.com/ARMmbed/DAPLink/blob/main/source/daplink/...

  Note the nested do { do { } while (); if (err) break;} while(); if (err) break;

  Should that code be rewritten? Most certainly it should, and it should be given a proper Error type. However, when you are first porting it, you need to match semantics or you get a bunch of off-by-one, missed error, or missed end of stream bugs. And, as you point out, the Rust loop{} equivalents suck.

  We've all written suboptimal code, and we all live in a suboptimal world. :)

• How to flash an arm microcontroller on Linux?
  3 projects | /r/embedded | 7 Jul 2021

  I checked for DAPLink, but this seems to require keil, based on what I read in the readme.

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