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Issue Highlights

🚩 Embedded Rust Education: Reflecting on 2024, Looking Toward 2025
🛠️ OneVariable introduces Poststation
♾️ Arduino bringing AI to the edge
🖼️ Pictorus, a new edition to the adoption tracker
🦀 Experimental Rust Support on QEMU
🌌 Internship job posting appears for Rust at NASA
⚡️ Rust Expanding into Smart Energy with OpenLEADR
 

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News & Article Roundup

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

Embedded Rust News 📰

• Embedded Rust Education: 2024 Reflections and 2025 Visions ⭐️

• probe-rs v0.25.0 is out

• Rust Implementation of OpenADR 3.0 Becomes Part of OpenLEADR ⭐️

• Poststation from OneVariable ⭐️

• QEMU 9.2 Released With VirtIO GPU Vulkan Support, AVX10 & Experimental Rust Support ⭐️

• bitfields-rs Rust macro for generating flexible bitfields

Rust News 🗞️🦀

• December 2024 Project Director Update

• This Development-cycle in Cargo: 1.84

• This Month in Our Test Infra: November 2024

• December 2024 Leadership Council Update

• November project goals update

• Rust Foundation Project Director Update - December 2024

• Rust Jobs Report: November 2024

• Slint 1.9 Released

• Rust and Zig support added in GoReleaser v2.5

General Embedded News/Trends 📈

• Axelera brings its low-powered RISC-V chips to Arduino’s miniature computers to run AI at the edge ⭐️

• DIME Project achieves a breakthrough in edge AI for real-time decision-making

• Nordic Semiconductor Launches Nordic Thingy:91 X to Simplify the IoT Prototyping Process for Developers

• NXP to Acquire Automotive Networking Pioneer Aviva Links

• Andes Technology Collaborates with Lauterbach to Deliver RISC-V Trace Solution

• STM32N6: Our very own NPU in the most powerful STM32 to inaugurate a new era of computing

• Critical OpenWrt Bug: Update Your Gear!

• Infineon plans to implement ISO/SAE 21434 product compliance for TRAVEO T2G automotive microcontrollers

Comparisons with other Languages 🔍️

• A Survey Of System Languages (2024)

• Why Rewriting Everything in Rust Won’t Solve All Your Problems

• Rust VS Go VS TypeScript: The Next 2025 Backend Battle

Hardware 🛠️

• Raspberry Pi 500 and Raspberry Pi Monitor on sale now

• Orange Pi CM5 “Tablet” Base Board

• Olimex Launches the RP2040pc, a Low-Cost Raspberry Pi RP2040 Board for Eight-Bit Emulation

• Raspberry Pi CM5 gets carrier boards with built-in PoE/PoE+

• XIAO PowerBread – a breadboard power supply and meter compatible with XIAO dev boards

• Pico W5 is a Raspberry Pi Pico 2 W alternative with RP2350 MCU, dual-band WiFi 4, 8MB flash

• 4D Systems Raspberry Pi RP2350 display modules come in touch and non-touch options for embedded applications

• LoRaWAN no code ESP32-S3 development platform

• Waveshare launches three RP2350 USB-C development boards

• Iridium Certus 9704 Satellite IoT Developer Kit

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Educational Resources

A curation of embedded & Rust educational resources and tutorials

Tutorials & Walkthroughs 📫

• Implementing async APIs for microcontroller peripherals

• Bare-Metal Embedded Programming on K230 Using Rust

• Chips don't bite! A fearless introduction to µController programming for Rusteaceans

• The Embedded Buddy System

• Trash in, treasure out

• Rust: How to create and publish your first crate

Insights, Tools, & Case Studies 📑

• Async Rust in Embedded Systems with Embassy - Dario Nieuwenhuis

• Google ‘Retrofits’ Spatial Memory Safety Onto C++

• NonStop discussion around adding Rust to Git

• AI Hardware, Explained

• How AI Is Revolutionizing the Automotive Industry

• A New RTOS Approach to Achieve Sub-Millisecond Timing Resolution

• Living with IoT: Are We Secure?

• What is QUIC protocol, and how to use through Rust?

• Dependability in Embedded Systems: A Survey of Fault Tolerance Methods and Software-Based Mitigation Techniques

• Best Practices for Integrating Legacy Code in Modern Embedded Systems

• Mastering Rust's Lifetime System: A Guide to Memory Safety and Performance

• Rust: Let's Get Functional

• Raspberry Pi Pico 2 Logic Analyzer

• SPELL: An End-to-End Tool Flow for LLM-Guided Secure SoC Design for Embedded Systems

General Embedded 📟️

• Channeling Success with TinyML

• DEX: Data Channel Extension for Efficient CNN Inference on Tiny AI Accelerators

• Automating Arduino Library Deployment with GitHub Actions: Version Validation, Pull Requests, and Release Automation

• TinyML Patches Things Up with DEX

• TinyML: Ubiquitous embedded intelligence

• A Holistic Review of the TinyML Stack for Predictive Maintenance

• Embedded Software Engineering Trends

• Raspberry Pi Pico-Powered DaMAgeCard Attacks System Memory — Through the SD Card Reader

• Using A Smartphone As A Touchscreen For Arduino

• Learn RISC-V repo update

• RISC-V’s Software Portability Challenge

• Tiny Machine Learning For Printed Electronics

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

• Porticus, expose a serial port as a websocket server

• UNO Rev3 or UNO R4? Choosing the perfect Arduino for your project

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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 🚨

• stm32-hal2 v1.8.5

• espup v0.14.0

• probe-rs v0.25.0

• cargo-embassy v0.3.2

• rhai v1.20.1

• ockam v0.145.0

• atsamd-hal v0.20.2

• e310x-hal v0.12.0

• rtic v2.1.2

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.

🦀 New Addition: Pictorus 🦀 → A Rusty modeling and simulation framework

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 🌎️

• 🦀 (New) Flight Software in Rust - NASA, USA ⭐️

• 🦀 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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