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Issue Highlights

🪁 First release of Arduino cores with ZephyOS
✍️ State of Rust Survey is now Live
🔩 A new release of Ferrocene is out
🦀 Advent of Rust is here
📚️ New “Async Rust” book is officially out
⏱️ Nio is a new experimental Rust async framework
📢 Rust 1.83.0 is out
📶 New WiFi Halow hardware emerges
🍓 Raspberry Pi launches the compute module 5 and wireless Pico 2
 

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News & Article Roundup

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

Embedded Rust News 📰

• Introducing rainmaker-rs: Rust Implementation of the ESP-RainMaker Agent

• copper-rs Rust Robotics engine 0.5.0 is out 

• Ferrocene 24.11.0 now available ⭐️

• Rust in QEMU Roadmap 

• Rust now fully supported in ELinOS

Rust News 🗞️🦀

• Advent of Rust is here ⭐️

• Bevy 0.15 Game Engine is out

• Layer N ditches Ethereum, says new L1 will support Typescript, Rust, C

• Introducing the Grafbase Gateway Hooks Rust SDK

• Gerust Announced: A project generator for Rust backend projects

• Linux 6.13 Hits A "Tipping Point" With More Rust Drivers Expected

• Async Rust book now officially released ⭐️

• Announcing Nio - an experimental async runtime for Rust ⭐️

• Launching the 2024 State of Rust Survey ⭐️

• The wasm32-wasip2 Target Has Reached Tier 2 Support

• Rust 2024 call for testing

• Announcing Rust 1.83.0 ⭐️

• Rustc Trait System Refactor Initiative Update: Stabilizing -Znext-solver=coherence

• Rust Foundation Celebrates Ernest Kissiedu’s 2024 OpenUK Award

• Supporting the Future of Rust: Spotlight on Teaching Initiatives

General Embedded News/Trends 📈

• Introducing Arduino cores with ZephyrOS ⭐️

• Accenture To Buy Auto-Focused Embedded Software Company AOX

• Raspberry Pi Launches The Compute Module 5 For $45 USD ⭐️

• Raspberry Pi Pico 2 Goes Wireless for $7 USD ⭐️

• The Official Raspberry Pi Camera Module Guide out now

• axem expands embedded toolchain support

• Embedded Wizard is now fully integrated with the ESP32-S3-BOX-3

• PlatformIO Open Source November Updates

• The DIME project concludes with key innovations set to transform Edge Artificial Intelligence

• NXP, TSMC Affilate Plan to Expand $8 Billion Singapore Plant

• Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) Boosts Linux Driver Support Ahead of Launch of Versal2 Evaluation Kits for AI-Driven Embedded Systems

• Renesas launches its highest performing MPU for industrial equipment

• Apertis v2024: the new Bookworm-based release for industrial embedded devices

Comparisons with other Languages 🔍️

• Move semantics in Rust, C++, and Hylo

• Rust and TypeScript: A comprehensive guide to their differences and integration‍

• The Best Embedded Programming Languages for Engineers Now

• Rust And C++ Should Be Friends?

• Memory Management in C and Rust: A Comparative Analysis

Hardware 🛠️

• Morse Micro Unveils New Wi-Fi Platform for IoT Connectivity ⭐️

• Murata LBWA0ZZ2HK/HL low-power Wi-Fi HaLow modules can communicate over 2km ⭐️

• 8086 Consultancy's PicoIO64 Brings 64 Fully-Functional GPIO Pins to Any Raspberry Pi Pico, Pico 2

• Seeed Studio Brings RS-485 to the XIAO, Adafruit's QT Py Family, for Long-Range Industrial Comms

• Olimex Unveils Its Beefier Take on the Raspberry Pi Pico 2 — and the Ultimate USB-Serial Adapter

• Waveshare RoArm-M2 ESP32 robotic arms offer four degrees of freedom

• T5 E-Paper S3 Pro Pairs Espressif's ESP32-S3 with 4.7" Display — and Wireless Charging

• Espressif's Tiny ESP32-H2-WROOM-07 Delivers Minimal-Footprint Bluetooth Low Energy, Thread, and More

• Clipper HAT Mini – A Raspberry Pi 4G LTE pHAT with Qwiic/STEMMA QT connector

• Waveshare RP2350-GEEK USB development board doubles as a debugger for Raspberry Pi and other Arm boards

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Educational Resources

A curation of embedded & Rust educational resources and tutorials

Tutorials & Walkthroughs 📫

• Rust 🦀 on the RP2040

• Preparing for a Rusty Christmas

• Embedded Rust: Introduction to Peripheral Access Crates (PACs)

• Self-Aligning Dish in Rust: Introduction

• Experiments with Embassy, the embedded async Rust framework

• How to integrate C++ and Rust

• Developing a Zellij plugin using Rust

• Step-by-step guide to build authentication api in Rust using gRPC

Insights, Tools, & Case Studies 📑

• is unsafe rust unsafe

• Merde is not Serde

• The Embedded Systems Industry in 2024: Top Trends

• The Power of Post-Mortem Debugging for Embedded Systems

• Advent of Code in Rust for the Rest of Us

• The Rest of Rust: A Beginner’s Gateway

• Making Rust a first-class citizen for Xen

• gccrs Monthly Report

• Selection of your embedded system’s software architecture

• Getting Started with Raspberry Pi AI HAT+ (26 TOPS) and Raspberry Pi AI camera

• A Novel Idea About Functor in Rust?

• A first look at the Raspberry Pi Development Kit for CM5

• Smaller, Smarter, Safer | The future for small, smart things

• Manipulating time through (S)NTP

General Embedded 📟️

• Running Your Own Bluesky Personal Data Server — on a Raspberry Pi

• Running Raspberry Pi OS in a Docker Container

• Deploying Ultralytics YOLO models on Raspberry Pi devices

• Integrating Embedded Swift and SDL3 on ESP32

• Vision-Language Models (VLM) at the Edge

• Sending files to AWS S3 Bucket using Zephyr RTOS HTTP API

• TinyML Meets LLM: Voice Control on the Edge

• Wake Vision: A Tailored Dataset and Benchmark Suite for TinyML Computer Vision Applications

• Fast development of AI applications in Zephyr with Linkable Loadable Extensions support in Kenning

• Optimizing LoRa for Edge Computing with TinyML Pipeline for Channel Hopping

• Optimizing Federated Learning on TinyML Devices for Privacy Protection and Energy Efficiency in IoT Networks

• Minimally intrusive instrumentation of embedded system C/C++ code

• Securing a Yocto-Linux Implementation in Embedded Systems

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Noteworthy Mentions

Useful resources worth mentioning

Noteworthy Course 🧑‍🏫

🏫 Applied Kalman Filtering Specialization

Noteworthy Book 📚️

📕 Async Rust

Noteworthy Newsletter 📰

📰 Techpresso - Keep up with AI & Tech in 5 mins

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Updates, Events, & Announcements

Updates & announcements from the community

Notable Device and/or Framework Crate Updates 🚨

• atsamd-hal v0.20.1

• zerocopy v0.8.13

• semihosting v0.1.17

• rt v0.15.0

• postcard v1.1.1

• defmt v0.3.10

• feather_m0 v0.17.0

• embassy-net v0.5.0

• smoltcp v0.12.0

• stm32-hal2 v1.8.4

• imxrt-hal v0.5.9

• portable-atomic v1.10.0

• embassy-sync v0.6.1

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  - March 14, 2025, Paris, France

• Rustikon - March 26, 2025, Warsaw, Poland

• RUSTAsia - Call For Proposals Open - Deadline December 31, 2024 - March 28, 2025, Hong Kong + Online

• Rust Konf Türkiye - Call For Proposals Open - Deadline January 1, 2025 - April 20, 2025, Istanbul, Turkey

• RustWeek by RustNL - Call For Proposals Open - Deadline January 12, 2025 - 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 Summit -- Call For Proposals Open - June 7, 2025, Belgrade, Serbia

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

• RustConf - September 2-5, 2025, Location TBD

• Oxidize - September 16-18, 2025, Berlin, Germany

• EuroRust - October 9-10, 2025, Paris, France

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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 🌍️

• 🦀 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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