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Issue Highlights

🦀 Rust on Zephyr Activity
👀 Rust Appears on Nvidia’s Public Repositories
🍓 Raspberry Pi Launches the Pico 2 with the new RP2350 controller
📢 RP2350 launches with out-of-the-box Rust support
🎙️ New Embedded Rust Podcast Launches
🐧 Debian Support Announced for NXP Application Processors
🚗 Tata Partners with ARM on SDVs
🎓️ Seeed Launches reComputer-Jetson-for-Beginners Guide
💿️ Rust 1.80.1 is out
🥅 Rust Project Announces Goals for 2nd Half of 2024
💼 New Job Postings

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Special Section:
Raspberry Pi Pico 2 Release

A curation of announcements relative to the RasPi Pico 2 and the RP2350

Rust Support 🍓 🦀 

• Rust on RP2350

• Jonathan Pallant Details the "Deeply Impressive" Raspberry Pi RP2350's Day-One Rust Support

Hardware & Insights 🍓 🛠️ 🔮

• The RasPi Pico 2 Announced with new RP2350 microcontroller

• A closer look at Raspberry Pi RP2350’s HSTX high-speed serial transmit interface

• Challenger+ RP2350 WiFi6/BLE5 board combines Raspberry Pi RP2350 MCU with ESP32-C6 WiFi 6 and Bluetooth 5.4 LE module

• Cytron MOTION 2350 Pro – A Raspberry Pi RP2350 board for robotics and motor control

• WIZnet Reveals New Enhanced Raspberry Pi Pico Boards with Ethernet Functionality

• Solder Party’s “RP2350 Stamp” modules features Raspberry Pi RP2350A or RP2350B microcontroller

• DEF CON 32's Raspberry Pi RP2350-Powered Badge Sits at the Center of a Major Disagreement

• Pimoroni Reveals Several RP2350 Boards

• Seeed Studio Xiao RP2350

• Adafruit Feather RP2350

• Adafruit Metro RP2350

• SparkFun Pro Micro - RP2350

• Our RP2350 Partners made all this excellent stuff for you

Development Platforms 🍓 🧑‍💻 

• Google Launches Pigweed SDK with Raspberry Pi Pico 2, RP2350 Support

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News & Article Roundup

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

Embedded Rust News 📰

• Rust Appears on Nvidia’s Public Repositories ⭐️

• Launch of the Self-Directed Research Podcast ⭐️ 

• 'pigg' - the GUI for GPIO interaction on a Pi - v0.3.3 is released, with remote GPIO

• Zephyr Weekly Update – Rust coming to Zephyr? ⭐️

• RoboPLC (Linux real-time applications in Rust) - v0.4 is out

Rust News 🗞️🦀

• Announcing Rust 1.80.1 ⭐️

• Rust Project goals for 2024 ⭐️

• RustConf24 Schedule is Live

• Async Closures MVP: Call for Testing!

• Rust Foundation Member Announcement: Accelerant, WyeWorks, & Zed Industries

• Status update on CharlotteOS: a post-unix operating system written in Rust and assembly language

• SentinelOne and Intezer team to simplify reverse engineering of Rust malware

• Aura 4.0 Arch’s Package Manager Released, Transitions from Haskell to Rust

General Embedded News/Trends 📈

• axem opens up embedded development dockerfiles tool repository

• NXP Expands Application Processor Ecosystem with Debian Support ⭐️

• NXP Renews Partnership with LGVL

• Espressif's ESP RainMaker Delivers Easier Key Handling, Safer Updates with "Secure Signing" Feature

• Arduino Cloud's New Custom Templates Aim to Get Your Projects Up and Running Fast

• Pigweed SDK Launches with Native Bazel Support

• Open Standard Module For Embedded Computing

• Infineon expands its Bluetooth portfolio with eight new parts

• Fraktal Unveils a Low-Cost Open Source Raspberry Pi Pico-Powered Laser Fault Injection Rig

• Canonical Adds Microchip’s New PIC64GX to Its List of Ubuntu-Supported RISC-V Platforms

• Picotaur—the unrivaled microrobot

• Tata Technologies partners with Arm to drive innovation in software-defined vehicles (SDVs)

• Embeetle IDE Expands Microcontroller Support

Comparisons with other Languages 🔍️

• Exploring Rust in a Professional Setting: A C++ Engineer’s Perspective

• LOESS in Rust

• Get Started with V: From Variables and Classes to Your First Web App

• Don't write Rust like it's Java

• Zig Is Better Than Rust At Storing Structs In A List

Hardware 🛠️

• PicoGlitcher Turns a Raspberry Pi Pico Into a Python-Powered Fault Injector

• Tachyon: Powerful 5G single-board computer w/ AI accelerator

• Espressif Launches the ESP32-P4-Function-EV-Board, Is Still Silent on ESP32-P4 General Availability

• Challenger+ RP2350 WiFi6/BLE5 board combines Raspberry Pi RP2350 MCU with ESP32-C6 WiFi 6 and Bluetooth 5.4 LE module

• Waveshare UPS HAT (E) for Raspberry Pi 5/4/3B+ takes four 21700 Lithium batteries

• Pineboards introduces Ai Bundle (Hailo 8L) Raspberry Pi HAT+ with AI accelerator and NVMe SSD support

• MicroPython-Powered Robotics for All: Hands-on with the Arduino Alvik

• Announcing the Seeed Studio XIAO 3pcs Pack

• MechDog AI Robot Dog features ESP32-S3 controller, supports Scratch, Python, and Arduino programming

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Educational Resources

A curation of embedded & Rust educational resources and tutorials

Tutorials & Walkthroughs 📫

• A cryptographically secure bootloader for RISC-V in Rust

• Using the grafton-visca Rust Crate to control PTZ cameras

• Piggui GUI to Piglet remote GPIO on Raspberry Pi

• Piggui CLI to Piglet remote GPIO on Raspberry Pi

• Embedded Rust: The Cortex-M QuickStart Template

Insights, Tools, & Case Studies 📑

• Tool Containerization Best Practices for Embedded Software Development

• A Visual RISC-V Landscape

• Leveraging Safety Processor Expertise to Develop RISC-V Based Automotive Implementations

• How to talk to your parents about hardware memory safety

• Interoperability between Kotlin and Rust, using FFI (Part 1)

• Investigation: Rust emits ~38x the assembly compared to C

• Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) Simulator in Rust

• Rust in Production: Industry Adoption, C++ Challenges, and Rust's Impact on Systems Programming (Podcast)

• Embedded Systems Software is much more than just a normal Software Code

• Edge AI: Its Critical in Moving Industries – and the World, to a Better Future

• ElogPlus Offers Powerful Logging Features for Espressif ESP32 Projects

• 7 lessons every developer should learn from CrowdStrike’s Doomsday update

General Embedded 📟️

• Seeed Launches reComputer-Jetson-for-Beginners guide ⭐️

• An Introduction to Bluetooth^® Channel Sounding

• Diving into JTAG — Security (Part 6)

• GitHub Actions for STM32CubeIDE

• The First Step Towards Building an SDV System

• Low-Cost, Breadboard-Friendly Raspberry Pi PIco Software-Defined Radio

• Web Serial Camera stream with Arduino

• Your ESP32 As A USB Bluetooth Dongle

• Transform Your Raspberry Pi into a Network-wide Ad Blocker

• A Low-Code Platform For Embedded Systems

• How to Use GNU Coverage (gcov) in a Freestanding Environment for Embedded Systems

• An IoT Tutorial Using HiveMQ MQTT Cluster, ESP32, Lua, and Xedge32

• User mode explained in simple words (Part 3)

• Unlocking the Potential of AI in Embedded Systems with Daniel Situnayake

• Multitasking with Raspberry Pi

• 8 Ways IoT, Embedded Technologies Power the 2024 Paris Olympics

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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-espflash v3.1.1

• espflash v3.1.1

• flip-link v0.1.9

• cargo-embassy v0.3.1

• svdtools v0.3.18

• imxrt-hal v0.5.7

• microbit-v2 v0.15.1

• microbit v0.15.1

• embassy-rp v0.2.0

• embassy-boot v0.3.0

• embassy-nrf v0.2.0

• embassy-usb v0.3.0

• embassy-embedded-hal v0.2.0

• embassy-time v0.3.2

• embassy-executor v0.6.0

• stm32f7xx-hal v0.8.0

Upcoming Events & Deadlines 🎭

• 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 🦀: Nvidia

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) Research assistant: WiMi Embedded Rust Development for Cybersecurity in Low-Power Distributed System Software - Freie Universitat, Berlin, Germany

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

• 🦀 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: 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

• 🦀 Software Architect for Embedded Systems - Siemens, Portugal

North America Based Jobs 🌎️

• 🦀 (NEW) Embedded Software Engineer, Rust - Anduril, Costa Mesa, CA

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

• 🦀 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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