Scouting report
Bare-metal Rust/Zig tinkerer — Snake on an Arduino
assessed from open-source footprint
Aidan lives close to the metal: a Snake game written in Rust (avr-hal) for an Arduino Mega2560 and a from-scratch 6502 emulator in Zig, backed by 151 commits and 52 merged PRs over the last year. The caveats are real — stars are low, two-thirds of repos are abandoned, and projects are self-described as incomplete — so this is hobbyist systems depth, not shipped product. A good fit for embedded or low-level teams who value curiosity over polish.
Authorship & open source
What they build
Industry experience
- IoT & Hardware
- Web & CMS
Signal breakdown
6
top repo 3
21
43% forks
17
8.7 yr
1
Active
67% stale
Strengths
- Verified author — wrote 100% of commits on snake-rust-arduino
- 52 merged pull requests
- Systems focus with Backend
- Domain experience in IoT & Hardware & Web & CMS
- Core stack: Rust, C, Nix, Zig
About
Skills
- Rust
- C
- C#
- Zig
- Nix
- F#
- V
- Python
Featured work
Snake Rust Arduino
Made snake using Rust (avr-hal) to run on an Arduino Mega2560.
- Rust
- Avr Hal
by Aidan Pinard
6502 Emulator
an INCOMPLETE 6502 emulator loosely based on https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLLwK93hM93Z13TRzPx9JqTIn33feefl37, but in zig
- Zig
by Aidan Pinard
Wallpaper Finder
just needed something to find images that are "wallpaper sized" efficiently
- Zig
by Aidan Pinard
qoi
QOI decoder and encoder implemented in V.
- V
- Vlang
- Vlang Module
by Aidan Pinard
.dotfiles
My dotfiles for NixOS. A backup in case I accidentally nuke the system.
- Nix
by Aidan Pinard
Rivals Mod Manager
tauri app for managing rivals mods
- Rust
by Aidan Pinard