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Book Update Announcement

Simplified Embedded Rust has been updated!

Here’s what’s new:

🔹 no-std edition: Now compatible with the latest esp-hal v0.21 crate.
🔹 std edition: Minor updates for the latest esp-idf-svc v0.49 crate.
🔹 no-std repositories: New embassy-sync examples added.
🔹 std and no-std repositories: Expanded support for ESP32, ESP32-S2, ESP32-S3, and the existing ESP32-C3.
🔹 Various typo, code, and reference fixes across both editions.

If you already purchased the ebook version, download the latest copy here.

Click here for more information about the Standard Edition.
Click here for more information about the Core Edition.

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Issue Highlights

✍️ Jack Ganssle Signs off with The Last Embedded Muse
📶 Rust Creeping into the SDR Space
📖 SER Book Updated
🎉 Rust officially adopted by ETAS
💻️ Wokwi Updated to Support Xiao Devices
♾️ Open-source Arduino Phone
🔓️ Microsoft Open-sources its VMM
📚️ RISC-V Paid Opportunity to Develop Courses

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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 📰

• ETAS pioneers the future of automotive software development with the adoption of Rust ⭐️

• FutureSDR – Rust SDR Runtime ⭐️

Rust News 🗞️🦀

• Announcing Rust 1.82.0

• This Month in Our Test Infra: September 2024

• Announcing the Rust Foundation’s 2024 Fellows

• Microsoft's new cross-platform virtual machine layer written in Rust (Repo)

• New Release: Loole 0.4.0 - Async-friendly MPMC channels for Rust

• TIOBE Programming Index News October 2024: Rust Climbs the Ranks

• rust foundation/safety-critical-rust-consortium: Documentation, code and information for the Safety Critical Rust Consortium

• Rustls Outperforms OpenSSL and BoringSSL

General Embedded News/Trends 📈

• Simulate Your XIAO ESP32 Projects with Wokwi NOW ⭐️

• This is the last Embedded Muse ⭐️

• RISC-V International is seeking knowledgeable individuals to write courses ⭐️

• BlackBerry: QNX embedded technology powers 255 million vehicles on the road today

• Discover #Virgil: history comes to life with Arduino

• TI’s Latest Programmable Logic Portfolio Enables Engineers to Transition from Concept to Prototype within Minutes

• SEGGER announces J-Link support for Espressif ESP32 devices with RISC-V cores

• MATCH Abstracts Away Hardware Differences to Deliver Better TinyML on a Range of Microcontrollers

Comparisons with other Languages 🔍️

• Abandoning the Rust Programming Language

• Combine Java and Rust Code Coverage in a Polyglot Project

• Variance - best perspective of understanding lifetime in Rust

• Introduction to Rust for C programmers

• Commercial Haskell should go after Python/Julia not Rust

• When to use Rust vs. Python

Hardware 🛠️

• Connect Tech Introduces COM-HPC® Mini Carrier Board for Advanced Embedded Computing

• Kumquat – An Allwinner V3s embedded system board with isolated CAN, Ethernet and ESP32 for WiFi and Bluetooth

• PrinciploT Revolutionizing Drone Tech: F7 Meets Raspberry Pi

• RA8M1 Feather Board Showcases the Renesas RA8M1 64-bit Microcontroller

• ESP32-P4 Function EV Board: A RISC-V Multimedia Development Platform by Espressif Systems

• ESP32 VGA Madness

• Arduino Nicla Sense Env module features temperature, humidity, and gas sensors from Renesas

• Infineon XENSIV game controller features PSoC 6 MCU, magnetic sensors, and OPTIGA Trust M security

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Educational Resources

A curation of embedded & Rust educational resources and tutorials

Tutorials & Walkthroughs 📫

• Embedded Rust: Creating a Launch Configuration

• A concise explanation of Rust types and Memory Layout

• Let's build a thread pool in Rust 🦀 that can execute multiple tasks concurrently

• Rust for Embedded Systems: A Beginner-Friendly Guide

• Building an Authentication Server in Rust: Learning Rust by Example

• Using C Libraries in Rust

Insights, Tools, & Case Studies 📑

• Nine Rules for Running Rust on Embedded Systems

• Safer with Google: Advancing Memory Safety

• Rust’s Expanding Horizons: Memory Safe and Lightning Fast

• Rust-Powered TinyML: A Look at the MicroFlow Framework

• Is Embedded Rust Actually Safe?

• Why Rust is taking the data engineering world by storm

• Exploring Power Side-Channel Challenges in Embedded Systems Security

• Redox OS: A New Take on Unix with Rust

• plugshark - An experimental Wireshark dissector framework for Rust

• Data Races — Atomic Rust

• An experiment in async Rust

• TinyML — Knowledge Distillation

• TinyML — Post-Training Pruning

• Building a Bridge from Tcl to Rust

• Evolving Beyond Single-Processor Embedded Systems for IoT Edge Sensor Nodes

• FFI type mismatches in Rust for Linux

• The Tesla Robotaxi Reveal

• rsky: AT Protocol implementation in Rust – a Blacksky project

• A Little Bit of Rust Goes a Long Way with Android's Jeff Vander Stoep

General Embedded 📟️

• Hardware-Based WebAssembly Accelerator for Embedded System

• Dynamic Video Signage Using Raspberry Pi Powered reComputer

• Access your Raspberry Pi without a public IP

• Control an RC Toy Car with Raspberry Pi Pico Outputs

• A Simple open-source Phone programmable with Arduino ⭐️

• How to Secure Your Raspberry Pi and Enable Safe, Resilient Updates

• Automated Deep Neural Network Inference Partitioning for Distributed Embedded Systems

• BiomedBench: A benchmark suite of TinyML biomedical applications for low-power wearables

• PiSlide OS Is a Write-Minimized Single-Purpose Raspberry Pi OS for Slideshows

• How to Choose the Best ML Deployment Strategy: Cloud vs. Edge

• Atym moved from FreeRTOS to Zephyr RTOS – Here’s Why

• Get started with Raspberry Pi Pico-series and VS Code

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Noteworthy Mentions

Useful resources worth mentioning

Noteworthy Course 🧑‍🏫

🏫 Applied Kalman Filtering Specialization

Noteworthy Book 📚️

📕 100 Exercises To Learn Rust: A hands-on course by Mainmatter

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 v0.8.7

• embassy-executor v0.6.1

• riscv-semihosting v0.1.2

• riscv v0.12.1

• riscv-rt v0.13.0

• rt v0.14.0

• atsamd-hal v0.18.0

• cargo-espflash v3.2.0

• espflash v3.2.0

• svdtools v0.3.19

• critical-section v1.2.0

• portable-atomic-util v0.2.3

• svd2rust v0.33.5

• semihosting v0.1.16

• hopter v0.2.5

Upcoming Events & Deadlines 🎭

• RustLab 2024 - November 9th-11th, 2024, Florence, Italy

• Open Hardware Summit - Call For Proposals Open - May 30 & 31st, 2025, Edinburgh, Scotland

• 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.

🦀 New Addition: ETAS 🦀

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

• 🦀 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

• 🦀 Software Architect for Embedded Systems - Siemens, Portugal

North America Based Jobs 🌎️

• 🦀(New) Sr Embedded Systems Engineer (Gateway Experience) - Lynq, Boulder, CO

• 🦀 (New) Special-Purpose Embedded Software Platform Developer, Platform Developer - Lockheed Martin, Hanover Maryland

• 🦀 (New) Embedded Software Engineer - The Maven Group, Minneapolis, MN

• 🦀 (New) Flight/Embedded Software Engineering Intern (Summer 2025) - Impulse Space, Redondo Beach, CA

• 🦀 (New) Embedded Software Engineer - CrossBar, Santa Clara, CA

• 🦀 (New) Satellite Flight Software Engineer (Rust), Senior - Lynk, Falls Church, VA

• 🦀 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

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