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Issue Highlights

🪁 Zephyr 4.0 Released
🐧 Linux 6.12 Kernel Released
🔍️ Fil-C and TrapC Attempt to Provide Memory Safe Options for C/C++
🚗 OpenBSW is a New Development Framework for Automotive Software
🧑‍🏫 Rust Infinity is a New Rust Learning Platform
📚️ Udacity launches new Embedded Systems Courses
🔓️ Free Access to QNX with a Caveat
⚡️ Microsoft unveils Hyperlight, an open-source Rust library
💪 Jonathan Pallant Issues a 3-Part Series on Rust w/ ARM
🗒️ Edge AI Tech Report on Gen AI Published
🌲 Amazon’s effort to verify the Rust standard libraries for safety
📀 gccrs is an alternative Rust compiler

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News & Article Roundup

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

Embedded Rust News 📰

• rust-iot-platform: A high-performance IoT development platform built with Rust

• Elektrobit integrates OxidOS into it’s compatibility program with EB Corbos Linux

Rust News 🗞️🦀

• Rust Infinity is a New Platform for Learning Rust Effectively ⭐️

• An Update on Limecast

• BuFFI: Generate ergonomic C++ APIs for your Rust code

• Kibi – A text editor in less than 1024 lines of code, written in Rust

• Welcoming two new Rust GPU maintainers

• The Rust Trademark Policy is still harmful

• Paddler - Load balancer for llama.cpp got rewritten in Rust

• Announcing the Rust Foundation’s Newest Project Director: Carol Nichols

• Rust Foundation Releases Problem Statement on C++/Rust Interoperability

• Rust Foundation Collaborates With AWS Initiative to Verify Rust Standard Libraries ⭐️

• gccrs: An alternative compiler for Rust

• Next Steps on the Rust Trademark Policy

• Google Summer of Code 2024 results

• gccrs: An alternative compiler for Rust ⭐️

• Verify the Safety of the Rust Standard Library ⭐️

• Introducing Hyperlight: Virtual machine-based security for functions at scale ⭐️

• Rust haters, unite! Fil-C aims to Make C Great Again ⭐️

• To kill memory safety bugs in C code, try the TrapC fork ⭐️

General Embedded News/Trends 📈

• Zephyr 4.0 Is Generally Available ⭐️

• OpenBSW: A Code-first Software Platform for Automotive Microcontrollers ⭐️

• Edge AI Technology Report: Generative AI Edition ⭐️

• BlackBerry's QNX Seeks "Hobbyists and Makers" with Free Non-Commercial License, Raspberry Pi Image ⭐️

• Linux Kernel 6.12 Officially Released, This Is What’s New ⭐️

• Interested in Smart Technology? Embedded Systems Are Your Key to Breaking Into the Industry ⭐️

• Nordic Semiconductor launches nRF54L15, nRF54L10, and nRF54L05 next-generation wireless SoCs

• SECO and Raspberry Pi enter into a strategic partnership to expand their industrial IoT offerings

• Signature of a partnership agreement between SECO and NXP

• The Edge Foundation Updates its Website after TinyML Transformation

• MathWorks and NXP unveil model-based design toolbox for battery management system

• TI Integrates Edge AI and Real-Time Control in New Mission-Critical MCUs

• NXP’s New i.MX 94 Family of Applications Processors Delivers Safe, Secure Connectivity for the Industrial and Automotive Edge

• Renesas Introduces New AnalogPAK Programmable Mixed-Signal ICs

• Renesas Releases Two New IO-Link Enhancing Devices

• Renesas unveils industry’s first automotive multi-domain SoC built with 3nm process technology.

• Infineon and Marelli Collaborate on the Development of Advanced E/E Architectures

Comparisons with other Languages 🔍️

• ‍Char in Rust vs C++: What’s the Difference?

• The New Kid on the Block (Rust vs Zig)

• Rust and Go vs everything else

Hardware 🛠️

• New AI Hardware Add-Ons Now Available For Raspberry Pi

• Arduino's New UNO SPE Shield Brings Single-Pair Ethernet, RS485 to the Arduino UNO R4 Family

• Nova open-source hardware Raspberry Pi RP2040 board features a 70 RGB LED matrix

• CYOBot v2 Is an Espressif ESP32-S3-Powered Transforming Bot Platform for Education and More

• Zalmotek RA8M1 Feather Board features Renesas RA8M1 64-bit MCU clocked at 360 MHz

• Clipper HAT Mini Brings 4G LTE Connectivity to Raspberry Pi

• RUBIK Pi Combines Qualcomm QCS6490-Based AI Power SBC with Raspberry Pi Compatibility Supports Android and Linux

• Orange Pi 4A low-cost octa-core SBC is powered by Allwinner T527 Cortex-A55 AI SoC with a 2TOPS NPU

• Open hardware baseboard for PolarFire SoM and other CM4 form-factor devices

• Seeed Studio Unveils the reComputer R11 Series of Edge IoT Gateways, Powered by a Raspberry Pi CM4

• Raspberry Pi Compute Module 5 spotted in the wild!

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Educational Resources

A curation of embedded & Rust educational resources and tutorials

Tutorials & Walkthroughs 📫

• Building a Wifi-controlled car with Rust and ESP32

• Simulating the DHT22 Sensor with Rust: An Efficient and Fun Experience

• The Mars Rover Challenge in Rust (3-Part Series)

• Let’s Rust: Installation and The Rust Ecosystem

• How to use the lazy initialization pattern with Rust 1.80

Insights, Tools, & Case Studies 📑

• Part 1: Building Safe and Secure Software with Rust on Arm ⭐️

• Part 2: Integrating Rust with Real-Time Operating Systems on Arm ⭐️

• Part 3: Leveraging Rust with Rich Operating Systems on Arm ⭐️

• Automate The Boring Stuff With Rust (Part 2)

• Embedded Devices Covered by EU Cyber Resilience Act (CRA)

• The Rise of Rust, As High-Performance Superhero

• CORAL: a Rust-like Borrow Checker for C

• Compile Time Crimes

• Creating a Rust IDE with Vitaly Bragilevsky

• Pitching Rust to decision-makers - with Joel Marcey

• CBLT — A Safe, Fast, and Minimalistic Web Server in Rust Programming Language

• Security in hickory-dns

• Safety-Critical Meets Web-Native: Wasm Revolutionizes Embedded Systems

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

• Eclipse Foundation Survey Report: Driving Innovation & Building Safer Cars with OSS

• Rust Needs an Official Specification

• TinyML — Multinominal Naive Bayes (Text Classifier)

• Developing Energy-Efficient Embedded Systems

• OpenSTLinux, the superpower of the STM32 MPU ecosystem or the making of a great Embedded Linux distro

• Bjorn: A powerful network scanning and offensive security tool for Raspberry Pi

• Hardware-Less Embedded Software: Embracing Application-Centric Development

General Embedded 📟️

• Using Wokwi with NuttX ⭐️

• ESP32 bootstrapping in Zephyr

• MLSysBook.AI: Principles and Practices of Machine Learning Systems Engineering

• Microsoft Windows on Arm for Embedded Devices

• The Ultimate Guide: Raspberry Pi AI Camera Object Detection

• TinyML NLP Approach for Semantic Wireless Sentiment Classification

• TinyML Security: Exploring Vulnerabilities in Resource-Constrained Machine Learning Systems

• Enhancing Predictive Maintenance in Mining Mobile Machinery through a TinyML-enabled Hierarchical Inference Network

• Pi4J – Stable and Boring on the Raspberry Pi

• An Evolving Multivariate Time Series Compression Algorithm for IoT Applications

• Demonstrating CAN support in Renode with SocketCAN and Wireshark

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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 🚨

• esp-wifi v0.11.0

• xtensa-lx-rt v0.17.2

• esp-riscv-rt v0.9.1

• esp-wifi-sys v0.7.0

• svdtools v0.3.20

• zerocopy v0.8.10

• svd2rust v0.35.0

• embassy-executor v0.6.3

Upcoming Events & Deadlines 🎭

• Rust Nation UK 2025 - February 19 & 20, 2025, London, UK

• Workshop: Rust-Python Interoperability - February 27 & 28, 2025, Online

• Rust in Paris - Call For Proposals Open - Deadline November 30, 2024 - March 14, 2025, Paris, France

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

• Open Hardware Summit - Call For Proposals Open - Deadline December 22, 2024 - May 30 & 31st, 2025, Edinburgh, Scotland

• Rust Forge - Call For Sponsors Open - August 2025, Wellington, New Zealand

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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 🌍️

• 🦀 (New) Rust Developer/Promoter - Collabora, Remote

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

North America Based Jobs 🌎️

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

• 🦀 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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