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Issue Highlights

🦀 RustRover Now Available Commercially
🦺 Ferrocene Compiler now Available for Purchase
🏢 James Munns is now Part of Rust Leadership
🏭️ NXP Establishing Plant in Singapore
🪲 Segger Expanding ESP Support
♾️ Arduino and MicroPython Run on a Single Microcontroller
🍓 pigg - a new Rust-based Raspberry Pi GPIO GUI

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News & Article Roundup

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

Embedded Rust News 📰

• Welcome James Munns to the Leadership Council ⭐️ 

• Ferrocene 24.05.0 now available for purchase ⭐️ 

• New Prototype for Parametric Driver Search

• First Release of pigg

• RustNL Video Playlist Published

Rust News 🗞️ 🦀 

• Forge Rust Conference Announced

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

• JetBrains announces general availability of its Rust IDE RustRover with flexible licensing ⭐️ 

• Welcoming Rust-C++ Interoperability Engineer Jon Bauman to the Rust Foundation Team

General Embedded News/Trends 📈 

• OpenAMP Runs MicroPython and Arduino Code on Same Dual-Core Microcontroller ⭐️ 

• Canonical releases Real-time Ubuntu 24.04 LTS

• Canonical enables Ubuntu on Milk-V Mars, a credit-card-sized RISC-V SBC

• DARPA brings OFRAK to the Commercial market

• Exclusive interview with Raspberry Pi CEO

• RISC-V adoption will be accelerated by AI, according to new Omdia research

• Accenture Strengthens Embedded Software Expertise with Acquisition of Teamexpat

• Raspberry Pi To Go Public - Are We Worried?

• SEGGER expands support for Espressif devices with Flasher in-circuit programmers

• Infineon launches new NFC I2C bridge tag for contactless authentication and secured configuration of IoT devices

• Dutch chip giant NXP plans $7.8B plant in Singapore ⭐️ 

• Zurich-based Synthara raises €10.5 million to expand the embedded computing market

• DDNS Service In Fortinet Or QNAP Embedded Devices Exposes Sensitive Data, Researchers Warn

• Espressif releases Arduino ESP32 Core 3.0.0, but PlatformIO support is in doubt

• Safety-critical industry-standard avionics embedded computing introduced by DDC-I and North Atlantic

• BreadboardOS firmware for the Raspberry Pi RP2040 features a Linux-like terminal

• PX5 Brings Advanced Storage Solutions to Embedded Systems

Comparisons with other Languages 🔍️ 

• Go vs Rust frameworks: Hello World Performance

• Learning Rust as a Golang Dev — Part 2

• How We Migrated Our Static Analyzer From Java To Rust

• Rust vs C++. A Performance Comparison. Part 3. Effective abstractions

Hardware Announcements 🛠️ 

• PCIe to 5G HAT+ for Raspberry Pi 5 takes SIMCom and Quectel 5G modules

• MYIR's Latest System-on-Module Taps the AMD Xilinx Artix-7 FPGA

• Spec5's Ranger Is an Espressif ESP32-Powered Ready-to-Run Meshtastic Communicator

• DIY Chatbot: Raspberry Pi Serves Up $70 AI Module

• Ochin V2 tiny Raspberry Pi CM4 robotics carrier board gets micro HDMI port, Fast Ethernet support

• New Waveshare IoT board uses Raspberry Pi Zero form factor, brings cellular connectivity

• Micro-ATX embedded computing servers for industrial and edge computing applications introduced by Congatec

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Educational Resources

A curation of embedded & Rust educational resources and tutorials

Tutorials & Walkthroughs 📫

• How to Create, Build, Flash, and Simulate a “Hello World” Rust Bare Metal Application for ESP32-S3

• Laser Range Finding: VL53L0x with I2C on ESP32

• Rust Programming Full Course 2024

• Profiling Rust with VS on Windows

Insights, Tools, & Case Studies 📑

• Arm Education in Conversation with Eben Upton

• On Rust, Memory Safety, and Open Source Infrastructure

• Networking Fundamentals in Rust

• Avoiding Over-Reliance on mpsc channels in Rust

• Bringing Rust to Safety-Critical Systems in Space

• Reverse engineering ESP32 Wi-Fi driver: the road ahead

• Rust for mission-

• critical software

• The Future of Tiny Processors: How AI and Machine Learning are Reshaping Embedded System Hardware Design

• Eben Upton on the Raspberry Pi 5, Its Development, and Beyond

• IoT Advancements in Industry 5.0: Bridging the Gap Between Humans and Machines

• EYE on NPI – Espressif ESP32-C6 Series Modules

• Writing an NES Emulator in RustWriting an NES Emulator in Rust

• The borrow checker within

General Embedded 📟️ 

• Undersampling. Playing with Nyquist and Shannon.

• How to use I2C devices in (Apache) NuttX: Adding support for an I2C device in your board

• Embedded Software Development: Comprehensive Guide 2024

• Zephyr RTOS is the Core of Synopsys Silicon Lifecycle Management solution

• Track the location history of your devices in Arduino Cloud IoT dashboards

• Connecting the Nordic’s new nRF9151 to Golioth

• Neural Network for Arduino: A Live Elektor Course for Only €10

• How to Use ThingSpeak with the Raspberry Pi Pico W

• How to Debug a Network Error in Zephyr

• Bored students can now enjoy Sonic 2 on TI-84 Plus CE calculators, thanks to port

• Raspberry Pi Pico Hot Plate Allows for Precise SMD Soldering

• Code an RGB LED Like a Pro: An Arduino Programming Tutorial

• Host website on ESP32

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Noteworthy Mentions

Useful resources worth mentioning

Noteworthy Course 🧑‍🏫 

🏫 Embedded Software and Hardware Architecture

Noteworthy Book 📚️ 

📕 Applied Embedded Electronics

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 🚨 

• embassy-time v0.3.1

• esp-wifi v0.6.0

• rtic-monotonics v2.0.1

• stm32f4xx-hal v0.21.0

• embassy-sync v0.6.0

• imxrt-hal v0.5.5

• espflash v3.1.0

• nrf52805-hal v0.18.0

• nrf52810-hal v0.18.0

• nrf9160-hal v0.18.08.0

• nrf52840-hal v0.18

• nrf52833-hal v0.18.0

• nrf52832-hal v0.18.0

• nrf52811-hal v0.18.0

• nrf51-hal v0.18.0

Upcoming Events & Deadlines 🎭

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

• Rust Ukraine - CFP Deadline July 6th - July 27th, 2024, Online, and Kiev, Ukraine

• Scientific Computing in Rust - CFP Deadline June 14th - July 17th- 19th, Online

• Forge Rust - August 2024, Wellington, New Zealand

• Conf42 Rustlang 2024 - CFP Deadline July 22nd - August 22nd, Online

• 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

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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

• 🦀 Software Architect for Embedded Systems - Siemens, Portugal

North America Based Jobs 🌎️ 

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

• 🦀 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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