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Issue Highlights

🦀 Simplified Embedded Rust is Published!
🍓 Raspberry Pi officially going public
🦇 Hackbat: a DIY alternative to Flipper Zero
🛌 Embedded Systems in Pyjama WhatsApp channel
🛣️ Rust Embedded Roadmap Plans Unveiled
📚️ 100 Exercises to Learn Rust Released

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News & Article Roundup

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

Embedded Rust News 📰

• RustNL Unconf Embedded Track Notes ⭐️ 

• arduino-plotter crate announced

Rust News 🗞️ 🦀 

• Linux 6.9 Arrives with Upgraded Rust support 

• Announcing the First Set of RustConf 2024 Talks & Keynotes

• Faster linking times on nightly on Linux using rust-lld

• Recap: Rust Leads Summit 2024

• May 2024 Leadership Council Update

• Unsafe Rust in the Wild: Notes on the Current State of Unsafe Rust

• Welcoming Marketing Program Manager Christina Gorton to the Rust Foundation Team

General Embedded News/Trends 📈 

• Seeed Studio Develops Open Source EV Charging Product Thanks to Zephyr RTOS and LF Energy EVerest

• MITRE Releases EMB3D Cybersecurity Threat Model for Embedded Devices

• Raspberry Pi, a computing startup backed by Sony, heads for rare London IPO

• Infineon Technologies Introduces New PSOC Edge MCU Family Heightened for ML Applications

• NXP Offers an Arm® Cortex®-M33 Development Ecosystem

• Huawei and OrangePi launches Raspberry Pi alternative with mystery CPU and AI chip

• RISC-V Now Supports Rust In The Linux Kernel

• Embedded Systems in Pyjama now has a WhatsApp channel ⭐️ 

Comparisons with other Languages 🔍️ 

• Rust & Zig Combined - Richard Feldman - GOTO 2023

• Zig is the Next Big Programming Language

Hardware Announcements 🛠️ 

• Voidbox Industries' FLIP_C3 Espressif ESP32 Board Can Drink Up to 50V Without Breaking a Sweat

• NetBurner SOMRT1061 – A stamp-sized dual Ethernet SoM

• Waveshare's ESP32-S3-Matrix Pairs a Dual-Core Espressif Microcontroller with an RGB LED Matrix

• Radxa Zero 3E SBC offers gigabit Ethernet and PoE in Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W form factor

• ardEEG shield works with Arduino UNO R4 WiFi for biosignals measurement

• Waveshare's Latest Sensor Adds a Thermal Camera to Your Raspberry Pi

• Raspberry Pi M.2 HAT+

• HackBat – DIY open-source hardware Flipper Zero alternative features Raspberry Pi RP2040 ⭐️ 

• Luwu's XGO-Rider Is a Raspberry Pi CM4-Powered Companion Robot with ChatGPT and Gen AI Smarts

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Educational Resources

A curation of embedded & Rust educational resources and tutorials

Tutorials & Walkthroughs 📫

• 100 Exercises To Learn Rust ⭐️ 

• Developing BLE Applications with BleuIO and Rust - BleuIO - Create Bluetooth Low Energy application

• Writing a WASM Runtime in Rust

Insights, Tools, & Case Studies 📑

• From Zero to Rust: Simplified Embedded Systems Programming 

• Ferrocene: Qualifying the Rust compiler out in the open

• Rust in the Cosmos Part 3: Embedded programming for space

• Hacking time: how you can control anyone's clock

• How fast is Raspberry Pi Pico?

• Rust 1.78: Performance Impact of the 128-bit Memory Alignment Fix

• Overview of the Rust compiler

• Embedded Open Source Summit 2024 Recap

• Insights from the Embedded Online Conference 2024

• Testing WiFi HaLow

• Will Zephyr become the dominant RTOS?

General Embedded 📟️ 

• Part 0 - Creating a minimal build environment with Docker

• Getting Started With CUDA C on an Nvidia Jetson: A Meaningful Algorithm

• A Survey of Short-Range Wireless Communication for Ultra-Low-Power Embedded Systems

• Potential of WebAssembly for Embedded Systems

• Arduino OLED Eye Movement with Sensors

• Practical Zephyr – West workspaces (Part 6)

• Taking Your Hardware To Production with Zephyr

• Generate specified number of pulses on STM32

• TCP tunnel over CAN BUS FD with Raspberry Pi

• How to Code with Lua on ESP32 with XEdge32

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Noteworthy Mentions

Useful resources worth mentioning

Noteworthy Course 🧑‍🏫 

🏫 Introduction to Embedded Machine Learning

Noteworthy Book 📚️ 

📕 Command Line Rust

Noteworthy Newsletter 📰 

📰 tl;dr sec - Keep up with Cybersecurity in 7 min/week

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Updates, Events, & Announcements

Updates & announcements from the community

Notable Device and/or Framework Crate Updates 🚨 

• probe-rs v0.24.0

• cargo-flash v1.0.0

• cargo-embed v1.0.0

• esp32-nimble v0.6.1

• embassy-usb v0.2.0

• zerocopy v0.7.34

• defmt v0.3.8

• svd2rust v0.33.3

• cargo-embassy v0.2.1

Upcoming Events & Deadlines 🎭

• Oxidize - May 28th - 30th, 2024, Berlin, Germany

• RustFest Zurich - June 19th - 24th, 2024, Zurich, Switzerland

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

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

• EuroRust - CFP Deadline June 3rd - October 10th & 11th, 2024 , Vienna, Austria, and Online

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

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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 🌍️ 

• 🦀 Internship | Software development (C#/C++) in the area of ​​vehicle diagnostics, Internship | Research and Development Embedded Systems, 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: Automotive Software Development with Artificial Intelligence - Infineon, Munich, Germany

• 🦀 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

• 🦀 Senior Embedded Software Engineer - Yaak, Berlin, Germany

• 🦀 OS Tool Software Engineer - 42dot, Warsaw, Poland

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

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

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

• 🦀 Rust Developer - Intervall, Germany

• 🦀 Software Architect for Embedded Systems - Siemens, Portugal

• 🦀 Embedded Software Developer - Siemens, Portugal

North America Based Jobs 🌎️ 

• 🦀 (New) Embedded Software Engineer - Hub Applications - SmartThings, Minneapolis, MN

• 🦀 (New) Senior Embedded Software Engineer - Edge Protocols - Hub Applications - SmartThings, Minneapolis, MN

• 🦀 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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