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Issue Highlights

🧭 Sonair Sensor - The making of the first safety-certified Rust product
🤖 OpenAI Releases Embedded SDK for ESP32-S3
🧑‍💻 Context-Generic Programming Announced
✈️ Custom Flight Controller in Rust
🪧 QNX Rebranding
🛠️ Renode Introduces VS Extension for Embedded Simulation Testing
💰️ Edge AI Foundation Announces Scholarship Fund
 

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News & Article Roundup

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

Embedded Rust News 📰

• Building a 3D safety sensor with Rust ⭐️

Rust News 🗞️🦀

• Announcing Context-Generic Programming (Early Preview) ⭐️

• dagrs - Flow-based Programming in Rust

• Why Did Fish Shell Make the Big Move to Rust?

General Embedded News/Trends 📈

• The OpenAI Realtime Embedded software development kit has been released for ESP32-S3 ⭐️

• Announcing the EDGE AI SCHOLARSHIP Fund ⭐️

• BlackBerry Unveils Strategic Relaunch of QNX Brand to Reinforce Leadership in Automotive and General Embedded Industries ⭐️

• US finalizes semiconductor awards totaling nearly $7 billion for Samsung, Texas Instruments and Amkor ⭐️

Comparisons with other Languages 🔍️

• Rust vs. Go: Choosing the Right Language for High-Performance Systems

• Rust is Still Promising as a Replacement for C++

Hardware 🛠️

• SO-ARM100 is an open-source AI robotic arm kit with LeRobot integration and NVIDIA Jetson support

• HiFi-Amped is a Raspberry Pi Audio HAT with dual DACs and class-D amplifiers

• Sonata v1.0 RISC-V platform

• WeAct RP2350A_V20 is a cheap Raspberry Pi RP2350 board with up to 16MB flash

• Seeed Studio XIAO, Now Solder-Free

• NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano Super Developer Kit targets generative AI applications at the edge

• Sensy32 Board is an ESP32-S3 sensor platform with up to six sensors for environmental monitoring in IoT applications

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Educational Resources

A curation of embedded & Rust educational resources and tutorials

Tutorials & Walkthroughs 📫

• Custom Flight Controller Firmware in Rust ⭐️

• Catching up with async Rust

• Embedded Rust: Creating Peripheral Access Crates (PACs)

• Getting started with RUST on esp32

• Capturing Audio with Pipewire and Rust: A Practical Guide

• A Rusty Christmas Part 2: Getting our Act(or Model) Together

Insights, Tools, & Case Studies 📑

• AI-Powered System Safely Converts Legacy C Code to Modern Rust with Automated Verification

• MicroFlow: An Efficient Rust-Based Inference Engine for TinyML

• Error Handling in Rust: Choosing Between thiserror and anyhow

• Burn: The Future of Deep Learning in Rust

• Compiling C to Safe Rust, Formalized

• Looking to the Future of Smart Glasses

• Rust Linfa: The Rising Star of Machine Learning in Systems Programming

• Kubernetes, Rust, Linux and DOS? The year in Open Source

• Build Lightning-Fast Data Processing in Rust: From Single Thread to Parallel Performance

• Rust in Embedded Systems: Revolutionizing Safety and Performance

• Optimising my Rust solutions for Advent of Code

• How to introduce 🦀 Rust at your company 🏭?

• Rust Unwrapped: A 2024 Year in Review

• Rust: Method to the Madness

• 3 Killers of Embedded Software Development

General Embedded 📟️

• Testing and debugging embedded systems in simulation with Renode VS Code extension ⭐️

• 5 Rising Trends for AI Adoption in Manufacturing

• Arm Tech Predictions for 2025 and Beyond

• Application of tinyML

• When Is the Right Time to Automate Testing for Embedded Systems Development?

• Flowcode - M5 Stack Dial Workshop

• We saved battery in our ESP32 WiFi circuits (TCP vs UDP)

• Raspberry Pi IoT In C - gpiod

• How to Make an Otto Robot Using Raspberry Pi Pico

• Building Your Own AI - AI for Edge Devices and IoT

• How to edit boot config Raspberry Pi 5 USB?

• Embracing Containers for Embedded Software Development

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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 🚨

• edge-net v0.9.2

• edge-nal v0.4.2

• edge-http v0.4.1

• embassy-time v0.4.0

• embassy-executor v0.7.0

• esp-idf-svc v0.50.0

• esp-idf-hal v0.45.0

• esp-idf-sys v0.36.0

• embedded-svc v0.28.1

• svdtools v0.3.21

• zerocopy v0.8.14

• rp2040-hal v0.11.0

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 🌎️

• 🦀 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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