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Issue Highlights

📚 Dive into the Rust ESP development ecosystem and learn about creating interrupts using the Rust esp-idf-hal 
🧠 Jetbrains launches early access program for new Rust IDE called RustRover
🧑‍💻 Community effort emerging toward establishing Swift in embedded development
📈 ARM makes its market debut
💰️ Arduino raises $22 Million from Investors to grow operations
💻️ Espressif’s launches an open-source AIoT development platform
📡 Lidar on a chip close edging closer toward commercialization

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Embedded Rust News 📰

• Slint 1.2 Released with Enhanced Platform Abstraction and Support for Espressif

• Espressif DevCon23 Live Stream Recordings Available on YouTube for Day 1 and Day 2 - Watch for Several Embedded Rust Talks

• Maitake-sync: async synchronization primitives for no-std Rust

• AdaCore Announces Gnat Pro for Rust

• New esp-hal releases, including implementations of the 1.0.0-rc.1 versions of the embedded-hal

Rust Community News 🗞️ 🦀 

• Introducing RustRover – A Standalone Rust IDE by JetBrains

• Leadership change in the Rust Infrastructure Team

• Candle: A New Machine Learning Framework for Rust

• Keeping Rust projects secure with cargo-audit 0.18

General Embedded News/Trends 📈 

• An Embedded Swift Proof of Concept

• Arduino Raises Another $22 Million, From Arm and Others, to Grow Its R&D, TinyML, Cloud, and More

• Arm Holdings shares gain nearly 25% in biggest initial public offering since late 2021

• Lidar on a chip puts self-driving cars in the fast lane

• Arm wrestles assembly language guru's domains away citing trademark issues

• IP partnerships stir the world of FPGA chiplets

• Wasmer is offering a $5,000 award for the first developer that adds support for Wasm/WASIX in the Zig ecosystem

• Sony energy harvesting module generates power from electromagnetic wave noise

• Intel Announces Arm Investment, Talks Up RISC-V

• NXP Semiconductors Data Breach Exposes Customer Personal Information

• Talking not Typing: Continental and Google Cloud Equip Cars with Generative Artificial Intelligence

• Nordic-powered wireless ECG provides customizable measurements for remote healthcare monitoring

• Milk-V Goes After the Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4 with a Pin-Compatible RISC-V Alternative

Comparisons with other Languages 🔍️ 

• Getting Started With Ada by Way of Rust

• Go vs Rust: QR-generator API benchmark

Tutorials & Walkthroughs 📫

• The Embedded Rust ESP Development Ecosystem

• ESP32 Standard Library Embedded Rust: GPIO Interrupts

• Integrating Memfault With AWS IoT Core and ExpressLink

• ESP Tutorial: Unleashing the Power of ESP32 S3 BOX 3 with OpenAI

• Raspberry Pi - Blinking an LED with Rust

• How to Do Embedded Development with Rust • Steve Klabnik • GOTO 2023

• Rust embedded at Espressif @ Copenhagen Rust Community

General Embedded 📟️ 

• A Deep Dive into Single-Pair Ethernet

• Raspberry Pi IoT Hats Up Their Game in 2023

• STARLIGHT – A Raspberry Pi RP2040 board for rockets

• PiCockpit: How to Control Your Raspberry Pi(s) from Anywhere

• A Comprehensive Approach to Enhancing IoT Security with AI

• Selecting the Right Camera for the NVIDIA Jetson and Other Embedded Systems

Insights, Tools, & Case Studies 📑

• Are we embedded yet? - A must-read on the state of embedded Rust

• A new way to teach Rust’s ownership model

• Teaching Rust in 5 days

• How Ferrocene Improves Rust

• Using nix-shell to create and share reproducible embedded development environments

• Debugging Embedded Rust

Rewrite it in Rust - Project Inspiration ✏️ 🦀 

• Secure Your Projects with Fingerprint Sensors and Arduino

• 3D Scanning with ESP-32 CAM & Line Laser (Arduino / C++)

• Color to Sound with Arduino: A Color Sensor-Based Solution for the Visually Impaired

Device and/or Framework Crate Updates 🚨 

• nrf-hal v0.1.1

• esp32s3-hal v0.12.0

• esp32s2-hal v0.12.0

• esp32h2-hal v0.3.0

• esp32c6-hal v0.5.0

• esp32c3-hal v0.12.0

• esp32c2-hal v0.10.0

• esp32-hal v0.15.0

• esp-riscv-rt v0.5.0

• esp-backtrace v0.8.0

• esp-println v0.6.0

Upcoming/New Learning Resources & Training 📚

• Introduction to Rust Training Course by Ferrous Systems (Paid), September 25th, 2023

Upcoming Events 🎭

• (Ongoing) RustConf 2023 - September 12th-15th, 2023, Albuquerque, New Mexico, Hybrid

• The Things Conference - September 21st-22nd, 2023, Amsterdam Netherlands

• Edge Impulse Imagine 2023 - September 27th, 2023, Mountain View, CA, Hybrid

• Rust Nation UK Call For Papers - Deadline September 30th, 2023

• A Decade of Rust with Ferrous Systems - October 4th, 2023, Online

• EuroRust 2023 - October 12th-13th, 2023, Brussels, Belgium, Hybrid

• Better Code Rust - October 24th, 2023, Online

• RISC-V Summit - November 7th - 8th, Santa Clara, CA

• RustLab 2023 - November 19th-21st, 2023, Florence, Italy

• Embedded World - April 9th-11th 2024, Nurnberg, Germany

Noteworthy Learning Resource 📖

💭 Displaying Images on ESP32 with Rust

Noteworthy Repo or Crate 📦️ 

📦️ picoserve is an async no_std HTTP server for bare-metal environments.
📦️ rxv64 is a Rust reimplementation of the xv6 pedagogical OS from MIT.

Noteworthy Post/Article/Interview 🖼️

📰 Interview from Embedded World 2023: OxidOS Automotive and Its Rust-Based OS at Embedded World 2023

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.

⭐️ New Additions ⭐️ :

• Bluewind Srl is a European consultancy specializing in the development of architectures, hardware, and software for embedded devices in the domain of Automotive and Industrial applications when Functional Safety and Cybersecurity are among the requirements. Bluewind is currently pivoting in the direction of wide adoption of Rust, and partnering with major semiconductors and tools manufacturers in the definition of a shared strategy for this evolution.

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) Master Thesis: Design of a sensor fusion network to extend the control of a reliability test system - Infineon, Austria

• 🦀 (New) Working Student: Embedded Software Development - Firmware - Infineon, Germany

• 🦀 (New) Internship: Industrial Setup for Formal Verification of Microcontroller - Infineon, Germany

• 🦀 (New) Linux and Rust Developer - Aira, Stockholm, Sweden

• 🦀 (New) Rust Developer - Aira, Stockholm, Sweden

• 🦀 (New) Working student: Rust C/C++ interoperability and support - Bosch, Germany

• 🦀 (New) Rust Developer - Intervall, Germany

• 🦀 Embedded Developer (C, Rust) to Clean Motion - The Techno Creatives, Sweden

• 🦀 Rust Developer - Accenture DACH, Germany

• 🦀 Software Developer Tooling - Accenture DACH, Germany

• 🦀 Embedded Rust Developer - Unikie, Finland

• 🦀 Research Scientist for Embedded Software and Security - Siemens, Portugal

• 🦀 Software Architect for Embedded Systems - Siemens, Portugal

• 🦀 Embedded Software Developer - Siemens, Portugal

• 🦀 Senior Embedded Software Developer - Siemens, Portugal

• 🦀 Junior Embedded/IoT Engineer - rapitag, Munich, Germany

• 🦀 Embedded Software Engineer - Gama Space, Paris, France

North America Based Jobs 🌎️ 

• 🦀 📡 (New) Embedded Software Engineer - Umbra, Santa Barbara, CA

• 🦀 📡 (New) Senior Embedded Software Engineer - Umbra, Santa Barbara, CA

• 🦀 📡 (New) Senior Embedded Software Engineer - Turion Space, Irvine, CA

• 🦀 Jr. Embedded engineer (electronics & programming) - Interstellar Lab, Multiple Locations (America and Europe)

• 🦀 Sr. Embedded Engineer (electronics & programming) - Interstellar Lab, Multiple Locations (America and Europe)

• 🦀 Embedded Linux Solution Engineer - Memfault, Multiple Locations

• 🦀 Senior Embedded Engineer - Kinetic, New York, NY

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

• 🦀 Rust Software Engineer - Enfabrica, San Francisco, CA

• 🦀 Systems Engineer (Rust) - Matician, Mountain View, CA

• 🦀 Software Engineer, Embedded System - Fourier, Palo Alto, CA

• 🦀 Kernel Engineer, Embedded Systems, Pixel Core Platform/BSP - Google, CA

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Keep Crafting in Rust, 🦀

- Omar