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Issue Highlights

🚜 TRACTOR Program Aims to Translate Legacy C to Rust
💻 RISC-V Mentorship Opportunities Applications Open
♾️ Arduino Moving on from Mbed to Zephyr
🏋️ PEMicro Adds Rust Support
📢 Amazon Announces Espressif ZeroCode Integration
🦀 Rust Getting Support for NuttX
🗒️ Stack Overflow’s Developer Survey Results Are Out
🗣️ Rust 1.80 Released
🔈️ Rust Nation UK 2025 CfP Open
🐣 SpiderOak Adopts Rust in Secure Space Communications
📖 Open Source Open FPGA Stack Released to Github
🇨🇭 The Swiss Government Open Source Mandate

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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 📰

• Copper: the Rust first robotics engine

• Embedded Rust Micro Survey Proposal Open for Feedback

• Rust is getting support for NuttX

• 2024 Results from Stack Overflow’s Annual Developer Survey are in with Embedded Insights this Year ⭐️

• SpiderOak and Axiom Space Demonstrate New Rust Enabled OrbitSecure Platform on International Space Station ⭐️

Rust News 🗞️🦀

• Translating All C to Rust (TRACTOR) ⭐️

• Rust Nation 2025 CfP Now Open ⭐️

• Announcing Rust 1.80.0 ⭐️

• crates.io: development update

• Welcome TC to the Rust language design team!

• Announcing SwimOS on Rust: A framework for real-time streaming data applications

General Embedded News/Trends 📈

• Switzerland federal government requires releasing its software as open source ⭐️

• Open FPGA Stack Released to GitHub ⭐️

• Amazon announces Espressif ZeroCode integration for developers building with ACK for Matter ⭐️ 

• NXP Announces MCX C Series MCUs

• Announcing Zephyr 3.7: New Long-Term Support Release of Zephyr RTOS

• Introducing eLxr: Delivering Enterprise-Grade Linux for Edge-to-Cloud Deployments

• Avnet groups embedded computing under Tria Technologies brand

• Eurotech Introduced Everyware GreenEdge for AWS Marketplace, Streamlining the Management of Edge Computing and AIoT Deployments

• Wind River Studio Developer Selected by Codelab to Accelerate Its Embedded Software Development Lifecycle

• Soracom Utilizes GenAI for IoT Applications

• Arduino to switch from Arm Mbed to Zephyr RTOS ⭐️

• Stremio OS Is Now Available for Raspberry Pi 5 and 4

• Remote.It adds Bluetooth assisted WiFi configuration to Raspberry Pi SBC’s

Comparisons with other Languages 🔍️

• Prototype to Product with MicroPython: Faster and Happier Embedded Systems Development

• Rust vs. Golang: A Comprehensive Comparison for Developers

• Rust and Julia for Scientific Computing

• Rust vs Zig Error Handling

Hardware 🛠️

• Avnet Partners with Arduino for Exclusive Arduino Pro Hardware Kit Bundles

• Infineon unveils PSoC 6 AI evaluation kit for edge AI and ML systems

• Seeed Studio Wio Tracker 1110 Dev Kit supports Meshtastic

• Olimex Teases a Low-Cost Dual-Core RISC-V Dev Board Built Around the Espressif ESP32-P4

• Particle's Tachyon: First 5G-Enabled SBC Harnessing AI/ML Acceleration for Edge and IoT Applications

• Espressif Thread Border Router Supports IPv6, Service Discovery, and NAT64

• Intel-based Radxa X4 Raspberry Pi alternative can run both Microsoft Windows 11 and Linux

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Educational Resources

A curation of embedded & Rust educational resources and tutorials

Tutorials & Walkthroughs 📫

• Mobiumata

• Writing AI Agent with Rust from Scratch, Deploying to Edge with WebAssembly — OS Week 1

• Websocket starter in Rust with client and server example

• PEmicro Blog: Cyclone Control SDK: Automated Flash Programming with Rust ⭐️

• Booting with Rust: Chapter 2

• Error handling in Rust: A comprehensive tutorial

• Mix in C with Rust: A taste of C in your Rust

Insights, Tools, & Case Studies 📑

• Investing in Rust

• Rust: The Next Big Thing in Machine Learning?

• SBOM support in Rust

• Virtual machines vs. Containerized Development Environments for Embedded

• Crafting Interpreters with Rust: On Garbage Collection

• System76 with Jeremy Soller - Rust in Production Podcast

• Rust and Embedded: A bit of both

• Cyber-Hurricanes and Automotive Software

• Comparing JSON and Protocol Buffers for Data Exchange in Embedded Systems

• What's needed to bring generative AI to embedded devices?

General Embedded 📟️

• AUTOSAR MCAL Embedded Upskilling Bootcamp Repo ⭐️

• Create a Mature Test CLI Tool with Python Click

• Using The Nordic nRF Sniffer For BLE

• New Launch: Advanced RISC-V Courses

• Some Embedded System Software Design Resources

• Live-time transcription with OpenAI Whisper on Raspberry PI

• Interfacing 15 Bit DAC with Arduino

• Zephyr Development Made Easy: Exploring FPGA, Codespaces, and Yocto

• Announcing the Embedded Security course

• Embedded Security Timeline June 2024

• Tensorflow light - Optimization Techniques on mobile and embedded devices

• Memory Mapping an FPGA from an STM32

• How to set up AMD Vivado and Vitis on MacOS

• WebAssembly on Zephyr

• A Schematic Review Checklist for Firmware Engineers

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Noteworthy Mentions

Useful resources worth mentioning

Noteworthy Course 🧑‍🏫

🏫 Advanced Embedded Linux Development Specialization

Noteworthy Book 📚️

📕 Learning Git

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 🚨

• cargo-embassy v0.3.0

• ockam v0.130.0

• rt v0.7.0

• semihosting v0.1.13

• portable-atomic v1.7.0

Upcoming Events & Deadlines 🎭

• Rust Foundation Fellowship Program - Application Deadline August 5th

• RISC-V Fall Mentorship Program (4 Project Opportunities) - Application Deadline August 12th ⭐️

• Conf42 Rustlang 2024 - 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

• 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.

🦀 New Addition 🦀: SpiderOak.

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 🌍️

• 🦀 Technical Lead, Onboard Software Platform- Wayve, London, UK

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

• 🦀 Internship | Software development (C#/C++) in the area of ​​vehicle diagnostics, 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

• 🦀 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 🌎️

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

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

• 🦀 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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