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🦀 Rustaceans, Your Voice is Needed! 🦀 

The Rust Embedded Working Group has launched an official micro-survey to gather feedback from the community. Whether you are a beginner or an advanced developer, this is a chance to express your interest in the domain.

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Issue Highlights

🦀 Rust Embedded Community Survey Launched
💽 TSMC Breaks Ground for Plant in Dresden
🪜 Rust Being Considered in FreeBSD
🎙️ Torvalds Expresses Thoughts on Rust
💪 ARM Launches Semiconductor Competency Framework
💰️ TI Gains Access to CHIPS Act Fund
🧑‍🚀 Open Source Going to Space
📢 New Ferrocene Version Release
🏃 AMD Catching up with Nvidia with New Acquisition
🪲 RP2350 Hardware Bug Discovered

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Quote of the Issue

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News & Article Roundup

A curation of embedded Rust-related news, articles, and posts

Embedded Rust News 📰

• Tonbo: Embedded DB for structured storage, written in Rust

• Ferrocene 24.08.0 now available ⭐️

• Embedded Working Group Community Micro Survey ⭐️

Rust News 🗞️🦀

• Top Programming Languages 2024 ⭐️

• FreeBSD Considers Rust in the Base System ⭐️

• As Malware Embraces Rust, a New Effort Emerges to Fight Back

• Linus Torvalds talks AI, Rust adoption, and why the Linux kernel is 'the only thing that matters' ⭐️

• 2024 Leadership Council Survey

• Leadership Council September Representative Selections

• This Development-cycle in Cargo: 1.81

• LambdaClass Donates $100k to the Rust Foundation

• What's in Store at RustConf 2024

General Embedded News/Trends 📈

• AAEON Seeks to Grow Edge AI Market Share with Edge Impulse Partnership

• embedUR launches platform for downloading pre-trained edge AI models ⭐️

• Aethero and Antmicro form a strategic partnership for the creation of high-performance space-rated modular edge computers using open source ⭐️

• AMD is going after Nvidia with a $5 billion acquisition ⭐️

• A Surprise Hardware Bug in Raspberry Pi's RP2350 Leads to Unexpected Pull-Down Behavior ⭐️

• Introducing the Arm KSA Framework ⭐️

• Zephyr RTOS Explored: From System Design to Academic Applications

• TI to get up to $1.6 billion in CHIPS Act funds

• Pineboards Gets a Raspberry Pi Driving a High-Performance AMD Graphics Card for 4k Gaming

• TSMC Starts Building Dresden Semiconductor Factory with Bosch, Infineon, and NXP

• US creates ‘mother of all motion sensors’ to battle GPS jamming in war zones

• Collabora deploys machine vision with GStreamer on STM32MP2

• SINTRONES Introduces its NVIDIA Powered IBOX series Edge AI Platforms

• Arduino Core for ESP32 gets a Zigbee wrapper library

• Linux Up and Running on the Raspberry Pi RP2350's Hazard3 RISC-V Cores

• Announcing the Embedded Security course

• Android support for 16KB page size boosts performance by up to 10 percent

• platform-espressif32 fork to enable PlatformIO support for ESP32-C6, ESP32-C5, ESP32-H2, and ESP32-P4 SoCs

Comparisons with other Languages 🔍️

• Why am I writing a Rust compiler in C?

• Why I fell in love with Go

• Rust vs. Zig in Reality: A (Somewhat) Friendly Debate

• Should You Rust, or Should You Go?

• Enums in Swift vs Rust

Hardware 🛠️

• Seeed Studio's reCamera Is a Modular Edge AI Smart Camera

• MaixCAM -- Quickly Implement AI Vision and Auditory Project

• Cost-Optimized Raspberry Pi 5 Released With 2 GB RAM and D0 Stepping

• PiKVM – Open and Inexpensive DIY IP-KVM on Raspberry Pi

• Meet XIAO RA4M1

• Banana Pi Packs an Allwinner H618 Into the Raspberry Pi Zero Footprint with the BPI-M4 Zero

• Comparison of Raspberry Pi 5 with 2GB and 8GB RAM – Hardware, benchmarks, and power consumption

• Flexduino is an Arduino UNO clone made of a flexible PCB

• Pi Pico 2 Extreme Teardown

• Luckfox Pico Mini – A tiny Arm Linux camera board based on Rockchip RV1103 SoC with 64MB on-chip RAM

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Educational Resources

A curation of embedded & Rust educational resources and tutorials

Tutorials & Walkthroughs 📫

• RP2350 Launch Blog ⭐️

• Building an Autoencoder in Rust

• Building a Simple Kolmogorov-Arnold Network in Rust

• How Asynchronous Programming Works in Rust – Futures and Async/Await Explained with Examples

• Digit Recognition With Rust and WASM - Part 2

• Mastering Macros in Rust: A Comprehensive Guide

Insights, Tools, & Case Studies 📑

• Don't Unwrap Options: There's A Better Way

• How Usable is the Rust Cranelift Backend Today

• Mix in Rust with Python: PyO3

• AI is IoT’s Killer App

• BuffDB is a Rust library to simplify multiplexing on edge devices

• Early Days of Rust Apps on Apache NuttX RTOS

• Finding Bugs in Closed-source Software: An Open-source Static Binary Analysis Tool (written in Rust)

• Efficient Memory Usage in Rust with hash_cons

• The Amazing Rust Podcasts that have Emerged in 2024

• A Rust-based BLE Heart Rate Monitor TUI

• Linting with Ruff: the Python linter built with Rust

• A Deep Dive into Firmware Update Vulnerabilities and the Role of ChkUp in Embedded System Security

• How much can a 2GB Raspberry Pi handle? I put it to the ultimate test

General Embedded 📟️

• Pi-CI – A RasPi 5 emulator in a Docker image for creating and flashing configs

• An Introduction to Embedded Machine Learning

• Computer Vision Model Compression Techniques for Embedded Systems: A Survey

• Dive into the Fascinating World of Embedded Systems with Professor Paz's Course!

• Library Collection Gets Your Raspberry Pi Pico 2, RP2350 C Projects Started Right

• Self-Hosting Applications on Raspberry Pi 5

• NixOS, Raspberry Pi and Me

• A slice of Raspberry Pi: how to build your own retro games machine

• Real-time ML audio noise suppression on Raspberry Pi Pico 2

• Streamlining YOLOv7 for Rapid and Accurate Detection of Rapeseed Varieties on Embedded Device

• Wireless Connectivity Solutions for ESP32-P4

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Noteworthy Mentions

Useful resources worth mentioning

Noteworthy Course 🧑‍🏫

🏫 Advanced Embedded Linux Development Specialization

Noteworthy Book 📚️

📕 Nvidia TAO and Edge Impulse for Renesas RA8 (free ebook)

Noteworthy Newsletter 📰

📰 Aimply Briefs - News that doesn’t waste your time

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Updates, Events, & Announcements

Updates & announcements from the community

Notable Device and/or Framework Crate Updates 🚨

• esp-wifi v0.8.0

• esp32 v0.33.0

• esp32c2 v0.22.0

• esp32c3 v0.25.0

• esp32c6 v0.16.0

• esp32h2 v0.12.0

• esp32s2 v0.24.0

• esp32s3 v0.28.0

• stm32f1xx-lal v0.1.4

• embedded-c-sdk-bind-hal v0.4.0

• embedded-devices v0.9.9

• embedded-registers v0.9.9

• semihosting v0.1.14

• gd32c1x3-hal v0.1.1

• nucleo-h7xx v0.3.0

• critical-section v1.1.3

• postcard v1.0.10

• rt v0.10.0

• embassy-stm32-plus v0.1.4

Upcoming Events & Deadlines 🎭

• Espressif DevCon - September 3-5, 2024, Online

• RustConf 2024 - September 10-13, 2024, Montreal, Canada

• EuroRust - October 10th & 11th, 2024 , Vienna, Austria, and Online

• RustLab 2024 - November 9th-11th, 2024, Florence, Italy

• Rust Forge - Call For Sponsors Open - August 2025, Wellington, New Zealand

• Rust Nation UK 2025 - CfP Open - February 19 & 20 2025, London, UK

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Jobs & Adoption

Keeping track of companies involved with embedded Rust

The Embedded Rust Adoption Tracker 🧭

The number of entities that believe in a future involving Rust in embedded is continuously growing. Any new additions will be mentioned here. Meanwhile, click here to access the full list of entities known to adopt/use embedded Rust.

Jobs Postings 🏭

Contrary to common belief, many embedded job posts nowadays prefer some knowledge of Rust. Additionally, there is a good amount that requires Rust. The list captures some of the interesting opportunities out there but is not comprehensive by any means. Listings that appear in the newsletter will remain as long as they’re posted/open online.

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Europe Based Jobs 🌍️

• 🦀 (NEW) Research Scientist – Embedded Software - Rockwell Automation, Prague, Czech Republic

• 🦀 Research assistant: WiMi Embedded Rust Development for Cybersecurity in Low-Power Distributed System Software - Freie Universitat, Berlin, Germany

• 🦀 Software Engineer - AdaCore, Paris, France or Bristol, UK

• 🦀 Software developer TCP/IP in Rust- Vector Informatik, Stuttgart, Germany

• 🦀 Rust Engineering Lead - Linux and Open Source - Canonical, Global, Hybrid

• 🦀 Embedded Linux Software Engineer - Canonical, Global, Hybrid

• 🦀 Doctoral Thesis: Functional Software Generation - Infineon, Munich, Germany

• 🦀 Embedded Linux Software Engineer - ZF, Plzeň, CZ

• 🦀 Research Scientist – Applied Security for Industrial Systems - ABB, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany

• 🦀 Zephyr Embedded Software Engineer - UL Solutions, Erlangen, Germany

• 🦀 IoT DevOps Engineer/Full Stack Developer - Liebherr, Ulm, Germany

• 🦀 Software Architect for Embedded Systems - Siemens, Portugal

North America Based Jobs 🌎️

• 🦀 Embedded Software Engineer, Rust - Anduril, Costa Mesa, CA

• 🦀 Rust Software Engineer - K2 Space, Los Angeles, CA

• 🦀 Rust Engineering Lead - Linux and Open Source - Canonical, Global, Hybrid

• 🦀 Embedded Linux Software Engineer - Canonical, Global, Hybrid

• 🦀 Various Rust-Oriented Positions - MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Lexington, MA

• 🦀 Robotics Software Engineer (Rust) - Pictorus, Oakland, CA

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