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Issue Highlights

🪁 Zephyr adds Rust Support!
🧠 TinyML Foundation Renamed to Edge AI Foundation
⚠️ Fed warns from C/C++ adoption
🦀 Elektrobit integrates Rust
™️ Rust Foundation updates trademark policy
♾️ Ardunio now offers a certified engineer qualification
💁 Support needed for Rust-embedded driver porting

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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 📰

• Rapita Systems showcases AdaCore’s GNAT Pro for Rust at HISC

• Rust-GB, A crate for GameBoy development with Rust - First Alpha Release!

• zephyr-lang-rust: Support for Zephyr applications written in Rust ⭐️

• Elektrobit integrates support for Rust ⭐️

• Support needed to port drivers to drive-rs ⭐️

Rust News 🗞️🦀

• Rust Trademark Policy Updates ⭐️

• October project goals update

• This Development-cycle in Cargo: 1.83

• Re-organising the compiler team and recognising our team members

• Call for proposals: Rust 2025h1 project goals

• This Month in Our Test Infra: October 2024

• Q3 2024 Recap from Rebecca Rumbul

• Rust Foundation Member Announcement: CodeDay, OpenSource Science(OS-Sci), & PROMOTIC

• Redox runs on RISC-V

General Embedded News/Trends 📈

• Feds: Critical Software Must Drop C/C++ by 2026 or Face Risk ⭐️

• From tinyML to the edge of AI: Introducing the EDGE AI FOUNDATION ⭐️

• Renesas Launches Low-Power, High-Performance RX260, RX261 Touch-Ready Microcontroller Families

• The web-based Arduino Lab for MicroPython Editor is out! With Chromebook support to code Alvik and more

• Infineon's Imagimob Edge AI Portfolio Is Now DEEPCRAFT, Including Newly-Launched Ready Models

• NXP Boosts Its eIQ Edge AI Platform with GenAI Flow, Time Series Studio Features

• Seeed Studio and Blynk Expand Partnership to Enhance IoT Integration with LoRaWAN and MQTT

• Arduino Offers "Certified Engineer" Qualifications Through Its New Arduino Academy Program ⭐️

• Meta Unveils Lightweight Llama 3.2 Models for Mobile and Edge AI

• Raspberry Pi OS’s Wayland Transition Completed With Switch to Labwc

• Chinese engineers wire Raspberry Pi into 600-meter railway tunnel to find any holes

• Military embedded computing on the verge of revolutionary new changes

• Arduino and Truesense partner to bring UWB technology to millions

• Software design and development tools for radiation-hardened embedded computing introduced by BAE Systems

Comparisons with other Languages 🔍️

• Rust and C++ with Steve Klabnik and Herb Sutter

• A comparison of Rust’s borrow checker to the one in C#

Hardware 🛠️

• OpenUC2 10x is an ESP32-S3 portable microscope with AI-powered real-time image analysis

• Seeed Studio’s XIAO MG24 and XIAO MG24 Sense boards target battery-powered Matter and BLE applications

• Particle Announces Five Big Launches at Spectra '24 — Including a Raspberry Pi M-HAT and Blueprints

• Datanoise PicoADK v2 music synthesizer is a Raspberry Pi RP2350 board for audio experimentation

• Raspberry Pi is getting a new touchscreen display

• Arduino Nicla Sense Env: Real-Time Environmental Monitoring with Renesas RA2E1, HS4001, ZMOD4410, and ZMOD4510 Sensors

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Educational Resources

A curation of embedded & Rust educational resources and tutorials

Tutorials & Walkthroughs 📫

• Embedded Rust's logging sorcery

• Beginner Rust ESP32 development - Snake

• A 10-Step Guide to Using Embassy for Embedded Rust

• Impl Snake For Micro:bit - Embedded async Rust on BBC Micro:bit with Embassy

• Building a CHIP-8 Emulator in Rust - An Advanced Adventure

• Mixing C++ and Rust - Introduction

Insights, Tools, & Case Studies 📑

• Eclipse uProtocol with Pete LeVasseur :: Rustacean Station

• Which LLM model is best for generating Rust code?

• Eliciting Software Requirements for Embedded Systems Part 2

• Rmk: A feature rich Rust keyboard firmware

• AIoT – How Artificial Intelligence is Transforming Connected Devices

• Practical Embedded Software Testing

• (Podcast) Zed - Conrad Irwin, Open Source Developer

General Embedded 📟️

• TinyML — MicroMobileNet

• 3 Files, ARM Cortex-M0+

• Zephyr Portability with an AI Application on Very Different MCUs

• HopTrack: A Real-time Multi-Object Tracking System for Embedded Devices

• Differential Image-Based Scalable YOLOv7-Tiny Implementation for Clustered Embedded Systems

• PyD-Net: Advancing Real-Time Depth Estimation for Mobile and Embedded Devices

• A Meticulous Guide to Advances in Deep Learning Efficiency over the Years

• Flutter for Embedded Devices: Expanding the Horizons of IoT Applications

• Intelligence data acquisition based on embedded system in Chinese cuisine cooker (CCICR V1.0)

• Real examples of the IoT edge: A guide of NXP’s Innovation Lab

• Raspberry Pi 6: Discussing expected new features!

• Using Arduino UNO to synch a visual neuroscience lab

• A Review on Resource-Constrained Embedded Vision Systems-Based Tiny Machine Learning for Robotic Applications

• Simulate your TinyML projects

• 5 Tips to Make the Most of Zephyr Documentation

• Need to Wipe a Raspberry Pi RP2040 or RP2350's Flash Memory? Philip Howard Has the Nuke Tool for You

• How the New Raspberry Pi AI Hat Supercharges LLMs at the Edge

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Noteworthy Mentions

Useful resources worth mentioning

Noteworthy Course 🧑‍🏫

🏫 Applied Kalman Filtering Specialization

Noteworthy Book 📚️

📕 Async Rust (Early Release)

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 🚨

• svd2rust v0.34.0

• stm32f469i-disc v0.2.1

• cortex-m-rt v0.7.5

• zerocopy v0.8.9

• stm32f4xx-hal v0.22.1

• rhai v1.20.0

• imxrt-hal v0.5.8

• espup v0.13.0

• atsamd-hal v0.18.2

• imxrt-rt v0.1.5

• lpc55-hal v0.4.0

• esp32-nimble v0.8.2

• rtic-monotonics v2.0.3

Upcoming Events & Deadlines 🎭

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

• Do iOS 2024 - Embedded Swift on ESP32 - November 13, 2024, Amsterdam, Netherlands

• Rust in Paris - March 14, 2025, Paris, France

• 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.

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 🌎️

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

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

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

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

• 🦀 Embedded Software Engineer - CrossBar, Santa Clara, CA

• 🦀 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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