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Issue Highlights

🍓 The state of Rust on the RP2350
📝 Rust embedded Survey deadline approaching
🦀 Rust 1.81.0 is out
🎫 RustWeek 2025 Ticket Sales Started
📀 A new release of Redox OS
⚡️ The RP2350 Erratum Situation
🚗 A Potential Tesla Model 3 Vulnerability
📖 New Exciting Educational Resources

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News & Article Roundup

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

Embedded Rust News 📰

• Rust on RP2350 ⭐️

• Deadline Approaching - Embedded Working Group Community Micro Survey ⭐️

• Espressif DevCon24 recordings are now available on YouTube

Rust News 🗞️🦀

• Announcing Rust 1.81.0 ⭐️

• Ticket Sales Opened for RustWeek 2025 ⭐️

• Redox OS 0.9.0 – new release of a Rust based OS ⭐️

• Rust for Linux maintainer steps down in frustration with 'nontechnical nonsense'

• New Rust PHY Network Driver To Be Merged In Linux 6.12

• New Patches Bring Rust Linux Kernel Support To MIPS

• Announcing tex-fmt, a new and extremely fast LaTeX formatter written in Rust

• Security advisory for the standard library (CVE-2024-43402)

• Changes to impl Trait in Rust 2024

• Save the Date: Rust All Hands 2025

• Electing New Project Directors 2024

• September 2024 Leadership Council Update

• Latest Rust Foundation Report Details Technical Accomplishments

• New Rust-Based Ransomware Cicada3301 Targets Windows and Linux Systems

General Embedded News/Trends 📈

• Model Zoos Set to Simplify Edge AI Application Development ⭐️

• New 2 GB Raspberry Pi 5 Has Smaller Die And 30% Lower Idle Power Usage

• RISC-V Joint Venture Quintauris Grows to Six, as STMicroelectronics Joins the Party

• The updated Philhower Arduino core adds RP2350 and Pico 2 support

• Vulnerability discovered in the Tesla Model 3 Tire Pressure System ⭐️

• The worsening Raspberry Pi RP2350 E9 erratum situation ⭐️

• Raspberry Pi Doubles the RP2350 Security Bug Bounty Prize to $20,000, Extends the Deadline 

• SEGGER's experts offer new SEGGER Design Service to create cost-effective, high-performance embedded systems

• Arduino CLI 1.0 is out 

• VIS and NXP will establish a joint venture to build and operate a 300mm fab

• NXP's Trimension SR250 targets autonomous industrial and IoT applications

• Infineon Harnesses the Power of RISC-V for Next-Generation Automotive MCU Innovation

• Memfault Joins STMicroelectronics Partner Program to Accelerate Customer Time-to-Market and Enhance Product Quality

• ST Announces First Embedded SIM to Support New IoT Standard

Comparisons with other Languages 🔍️

• A Simplified Comparison: Rust and Pointers

• Swift is a more convenient Rust

• Rust vs. Go: Choosing the Right Language for System Programming

• From Julia to Rust

• Learning Rust as a C/Python programmer

• Rust for the small things? but what about Python?

• A New Wave of Underwater Comms Is Coming Low-cost acoustic modem is built on a Raspberry Pi

Hardware 🛠️

• Edgeberry allows you to build and manage Raspberry Pi IoT Edge devices

• AAEON RICO-MX8P fanless Pico-ITX Plus SBC is powered by NXP i.MX 8M Plus AI processor

• WeAct RA4M1 – A small board with plenty of GPIOs that’s software-compatible with the Arduino UNO R4

• KAGA FEI Introduces New Wi-Fi 6 and Bluetooth Combo Module for Embedded Devices

• Banana Pi BPI-CM5 Pro

• nRFBOX V2 ESP32 wireless hacking tool can scan, analyze, spoof, and jam the whole 2.4GHz spectrum

• Epi C3 Is a Fingertip Development Board Built Around the Espressif ESP32-C3

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Educational Resources

A curation of embedded & Rust educational resources and tutorials

Tutorials & Walkthroughs 📫

• From Zero to Async in Embedded Rust ⭐️

• (LinkedIn Course) Introduction with Embedded Systems with Rust

• How to create a C Custom Memory Allocator and use it in Rust

• Unleash Your Command Line Prowess with Rust

• Rust adventure to develop a Game Boy emulator — Intro

• Rust adventure to develop a Game Boy emulator — Part 1: Memory

• Build a CLI in Rust

Insights, Tools, & Case Studies 📑

• Can DARPA’s TRACTOR Pull C to Rust for Memory-Safe Overhaul?

• Deploying Edge AI: An Overview of Industry Trends and Hardware Selection

• Rust Documentation Explained

• Deploying Rust in Existing Firmware Codebases ⭐️

• It's not Rust, it's FreeBSD (and LLVM)

• Using Rust to Build a TSDB Running Inside a Car ⭐️

• Unmaking the Makefiles - exorcising the Rust compiler test suite one file at a time

• Upgrading Linux with Rust looks like a new challenge. It's one of our oldest

• How to deadlock Tokio application in Rust with just a single mutex

• AutoPatch: Automated Generation of Hotpatches for Real-Time Embedded Devices

• Understanding Shared Ownership in Rust: A Beginner’s Guide

• Learn Rust, train doctors – Interview with Caroline Morton

• Best practices for using Simulink autogenerated code in an embedded Rust project

• An Optimization That's Impossible in Rust

• How to Use Rust for AI: A Comprehensive Guide

• Rust2Go: A simple and efficient way to call Golang from Rust with native async support

General Embedded 📟️

• Describing and Simulating Complex Zephyr-Based Systems

• RemoteLab robotics development for universities

• RISC-V Enables Performant and Flexible AI and ML Compute

• Arm KSA Framework: Theory and applications

• Boost Italian Schools with Raspberry Pi Thin Clients Run Heavy Apps Efficiently Using ThinLinc

• Diving into JTAG — Security (Part 6)

• EdgeAI Made Easy: Object Detection

• Running a Docker Swarm on Raspberry Pi 5

• A Review of Techniques for Ageing Detection and Monitoring on Embedded Systems

• Learn how to run Flutter on Raspberry Pi 🍰 and embedded devices

• The Rise of WASM (WebAssembly) in 2024: Why Every Developer Should Care

• How to recover a “bricked” Raspberry Pi Pico 2 or other RP2350 board

• Wordpress installation in Raspberry Pi using Nginx

• Using RISC-V cores on the Raspberry Pi Pico 2 board and RP2350 MCU – From blinking an LED to building Linux

• Rapid development of anomaly detection on STM32 using NEAI Studio

• OTA updates and fleet management for Zephyr-controlled MCUs with RDFM

• Launch website to public from Raspberry Pi

• Easy Anomaly Detection + Alerts with Edge Impulse and Blues

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Noteworthy Mentions

Useful resources worth mentioning

Noteworthy Course 🧑‍🏫

🏫 Advanced Embedded Linux Development Specialization

Noteworthy Book 📚️

📕 Nvidia TAO and Edge Impulse for Renesas RA8 (free eBook)

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 🚨

• zerocopy v0.7.35

• jh71xx-hal v0.4.1

• esp-wifi v0.9.1

• xtensa-lx-rt v0.17.1

• rt v0.10.1

• embedded-graphics-simulator v0.7.0

• uefi v0.32.0

Upcoming Events & Deadlines 🎭

• 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

• RustWeek by RustNL - May 13-17, 2025, Utrect, The Netherlands

• 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.

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 🌍️

• 🦀 Research Scientist – Embedded Software - Rockwell Automation, Prague, Czech Republic

• 🦀 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 🌎️

• 🦀 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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