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Issue Highlights

🦀 Rust 1.79.0 Released
💻️ World’s First RISC-V Laptop
🍎 Appled Showcases Embedded Swift in WWDC
🚗 RTOS + Linux In-vehicle
🍓 Raspberry Pi Officially Listed in London Stock Exchange
🔒️ Rust Foundation Safety Initiative Attracting More Entities
📚️ Simplified Embedded Rust is now Available in Paperback

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News & Article Roundup

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

Embedded Rust News 📰

• Simplified Embedded Rust Book Now Available in Paperback ⭐️

• Update Notice: nRF91 Crates Bug

Rust News 🗞️ 🦀 

• Announcing Rust 1.79.0 ⭐️ 

• Announcing the Safety-Critical Rust Consortium ⭐️

• AdaCore supports the Safety-Critical Rust Consortium

• The New Safety-Critical Rust Consortium: We’re in!

General Embedded News/Trends 📈 

• Apple Showcases Embedded Swift at WWDC ⭐️

• Apple Showcases Embedded Swift on ESP32-C6 to Build Matter Enabled Connected Devices ⭐️

• World’s first RISC-V Laptop gets a massive upgrade and equips with Ubuntu ⭐️

• Raspberry Pi IPO ⭐️

• Introducing Justina: 'Just an Interpreter For Arduino'

• Raspberry Pi Embraces AI With Hailo Collaboration

• Arduino Cloud Gets Better Device Tracking with the New Advanced Map Widget

• Beyond WebAssembly: Ben Titzer’s New Programming Language, Virgil

• Texas Instruments Launches Internet of Things Ecosystem

• Tesla restarts hiring beyond AI and robotics in a big way

Comparisons with other Languages 🔍️ 

• My experience crafting an interpreter with Rust

• Why Use Rust Over C++ for IoT Solution Development

• Memory Safety between Rust and Ruby — Making Rust Arc Work in Ruby

• Async Rust and WebAssembly for blazing-fast web applications

• Rust Vs. Other Programming Languages: What Sets Rust Apart?

• Why Use Rust Over C++ for IoT Solution Development

• Go vs Rust in 2024: slight nuances for dev enthusiasts

Hardware 🛠️ 

• Oak Development Pairs a Lattice iCE40 FPGA with a Raspberry Pi RP2040 for the RPGA Feather

• Dual Micro HDMI to HDMI adapter supports Raspberry Pi 5/4B

• Next-Generation SDR: LimeNET Micro 2.0 Developer Edition Enhances Raspberry Pi CM4 Capabilities

• MYIR Introduces New SOM Featuring AMD/Xilinx Artix-7 XC7A100T FPGA

• ThingPulse's Pendrive S3 Is an Espressif ESP32-S3-Powered Multi-Function USB Stick

• M5Stack's Latest Espressif ESP32 Camera Module Includes Wi-Fi and Power-over-Ethernet Connectivity

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Educational Resources

A curation of embedded & Rust educational resources and tutorials

Tutorials & Walkthroughs 📫

• Laser Range Finding: Embassy with VL53L0x (I2C on ESP32)

• How to Build a Command-Line Barcode Reader with Rust and C++ Barcode SDK

• Program a connected device using Raft

• Rust on ESP32, part 3: Writing a simple driver for an old soviet switch

Insights, Tools, & Case Studies 📑

• Programming Education: Tailoring Tools and Techniques for Rust

• Making robots plan faster with SIMD and Rust

• unwrap_or_else in Rust

• Building Plain Old Data from Scratch

• Learning Rust with Embedded Programming on RP2040

• RTOS and Linux Are Defining In-Vehicle Computing – Together ⭐️

• Phil Koopman: Two Sides of the SDV Coin

• RISC-V Heralds New Era Of Cooperation

• Why RISC-V must get its messaging right on open standard vs open source

• Enabling flexible Software Defined Vehicle architectures

General Embedded 📟️ 

• Bringing GPT-4o in From the Cloud to the Edge

• A Micro Architectural Events Aware Real-Time Embedded System Fault Injector

• Linux Device Drivers 101 (Free Course)

• Pico Power: Get to Know the Raspberry Pi Pico Board and RP2040

• Joy-Pi: An Experimenter's Case for the Raspberry Pi

• A Software-Defined Radio Built From a Raspberry Pi Pico — And Very Little Else

• A Raspberry Pi Into a Matter Gadget with Ubuntu Core

• Creating a Character Device Driver for Raspberry Pi Using Buildroot

• Running Large Language Models on Raspberry Pi at the Edge

• ESP32 with VS Code and PlatformIO: Upload Files to LittleFS Filesystem

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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 🚨 

• microbit-v2 v0.15.0

• microbit v0.15.0

• svd2rust v0.33.4

• semihosting v0.1.11

• espup v0.12.0

• rp2040-hal v0.10.2

• embassy-time v0.3.1

Upcoming Events & Deadlines 🎭

• 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 🌍️ 

• 🦀 (New) Technical Lead, Onboard Software Platform, Software Engineer, Robot Software - Wayve, London, UK

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

• 🦀 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

• 🦀 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 🌎️ 

• 🦀 (New) Senior Firmware Engineer, Pixel - Google, Mountain View, CA

• 🦀 (New) Software Engineer, Robot Software - Wayve, Mountain View, CA

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

• 🦀 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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