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Issue Highlights

🦀 Ferrocene goes open source!
🐧 Ubuntu maintainer Canonical starting a blog series about Rust developments
💻️ Intel announces plans to spin off PSG
🛣️ Espressif publishes Rust development quarterly update and future roadmap
🔌 probe.rs 0.21 released and probe-run being deprecated
⚙️ Rust 1.73.0 Announced

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Embedded Rust News 📰

• Deprecation of probe-run and migration to probe-rs

• Ferrocene – Rust for Critical Systems 🔥 

• 2023 Q3 Update of Rust on Espressif Chips

• 2023 Q4 Roadmap for Espressif Chips 🔥

• Rust is Ready for Primetime

Rust Community News 🗞️ 🦀 

• Announcing Rust 1.73.0

• 1.73.0 pre-release testing

• Polonius update

• In Search of Rust Developers, Companies Turn to In-House Training

General Embedded News/Trends 📈 

• Raspberry Pi OS upgraded to Debian 12 “Bookworm”

• Raspberry Pi releases RP1 peripheral controller datasheet and block diagram

• Introduction to Mojo Programming Language: New Era of AI Programming

• Intel plans to spin off FPGA group as an independent company nine years after buying Altera

• Raspberry Pi 5: Early benchmarks confirm big performance gains for new single-board computer

• The Future Of Vehicles As Software-Defined Data Centers

• Will Generative AI Help or Harm Embedded Software Developers?

• Embedding WASM in the Future

Comparisons with other Languages 🔍️ 

• Julia leads Rust, Zig, Go and Java in data processing benchmark

• Rust vs Julia in Scientific Computing

• Safety vs Performance. A case study of C, C++ and Rust sort implementations

• Microbenchmark testing Python, Numba, Mojo, Dart, C/gcc, Rust, Go, JavaScript, C#, Java, Kotlin performance in Mandelbrot set generation

Tutorials & Walkthroughs 📫

• Edge IoT with Rust on ESP: HTTP Client 🔍️ 

• Bare Metal Rust on RISC-V With Dynamic Memory

• Acceptance Testing embedded-hal Drivers 🔍️

• Async Rust on ESP32: Getting Started with Embassy

• Build a Real-Time Clock Web Server with ESP32 and Rust

• Rust on ESP32: Running on no_std

• Building a Weather Display in Rust

• Rust on ESP32: Controlling a stepper motor with acceleration

Insights, Tools, & Case Studies 📑

• Why and how to use Rust on Ubuntu 🔥 

• Open Sourcing Ferrocene 🔥

• RIOT Summit 2023, "MnemOS"

• Bare-metal Rust in Android 🔥

• Why is the JavaScript ecosystem switching to Rust?

• Rust Beyond 101

• Embrace the Rust Rush: Catapult your Career with Programming Excellence

• Make Your Rust Code Unit Testable With Dependency Inversion

• Data Serialization in Rust with Serde

• Raspberry Pi 5, Nvidia Jetson Wheelchair, and Embedded Rust

• Divan: Fast and Simple Benchmarking for Rust

• Crux: Cross-platform app development in Rust

General Embedded 📟️ 

• ESP32's Family Memory Map 101 🔥

• Paper Digest: The Cell as an Embedded Computing System 🔥

• (Podcast) Renode for IoT with Michael Gielda

• Creating a Telegram Bot for ESP32

• Low Power E-Paper and Printed Solar Cells for IoT Applications

• How to Run Linux on an ESP32

• MCU Peripheral Forwarding 

• FreeRTOS on the Raspberry Pi Pico (RP2040) Part 1: VSCode Setup and Blinky Test

• Unveiling Real-Time Operating Systems (RTOS): The Heartbeat of Modern Embedded Systems

• Design Decisions in Embedded Software

• Navigating embedded system security risks in the cloud

Rewrite it in Rust - Project Inspiration ✏️ 🦀 

• Portable Arduino FM-Radio

• Raspberry Pi Pico W Carrier Board for Air Quality Monitoring

• ESP32 Tiny Video Streamer

Device and/or Framework Crate Updates 🚨 

• esp-hal v0.0.1

• cargo-espflash v2.1.0

• espflash v2.1.0

• espup v0.6.1

• defmt-test v0.3.1

• defmt-print v0.3.10

• probe-rs v0.21.0

• stm32h7xx-hal v0.15.0

• teensy4-bsp v0.4.4

• nrf24radio v0.1.0

• embedded-nal-async v0.6.0

• embedded-io-adapters v0.6.0

• embedded-io-async v0.6.0

• embedded-io v0.6.0

• svd2rust v0.30.1

• svdtools v0.3.3

Upcoming/New Learning Resources & Training 📚

• Introduction to Rust Training Course by Ferrous Systems (Paid), Live-Remote, October 23rd, 2023

• Comprehensive Rust with TimClicks (Paid - Limited Seats), Live-Remote, October 23rd - November 5th, 2023

Upcoming Events & Deadlines 🎭

• (Ongoing) EuroRust 2023 - October 12th-13th, 2023, Brussels, Belgium, Hybrid

• Better Code Rust - October 24th, 2023, Online

• Tiny Tapeout 5 Submission Deadline - November 4th, 2023

• RISC-V Summit - November 7th - 8th, 2023, Santa Clara, CA

• tinyML Summit 2024 Call for Presentations and Posters - November 17th, 2023

• RustLab 2023 - November 19th-21st, 2023, Florence, Italy

• Open Hardware Summit Call for Talks and Proposals - Deadline December 17th, 2023

• Rust Nation UK - March 26th - 28th, 2024

• Embedded World - April 9th-11th, 2024, Nurnberg, Germany

• Embedded Open Source Summit - April 16-18, 2024, Seattle, Washington

Noteworthy Hardware 🛠️ 

📟️ Waveshare RP2040-PiZero – A Raspberry Pi RP2040 board with Raspberry Pi Zero form factor

Noteworthy Repo or Crate 📦️ 

📦️ A Collection of Notable Rust Blog Posts

Noteworthy Post/Article/Interview 🖼️

💭 Displaying Images on ESP with 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.

⭐️ List Updated ⭐️

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) Senior Embedded Software Engineer - Nedap, Netherlands (east)

• 🦀 (New) Rust Engineer - Fusion Engineering, Delft, Netherlands

• 🦀 (New) Embedded Systems Engineer, Software Platform - Wayve, London, UK

• 🦀 Master Thesis: Design of a sensor fusion network to extend the control of a reliability test system - Infineon, Austria

• 🦀 Working Student: Embedded Software Development - Firmware - Infineon, Germany

• 🦀 Internship: Industrial Setup for Formal Verification of Microcontroller - Infineon, Germany

• 🦀 Linux and Rust Developer - Aira, Stockholm, Sweden

• 🦀 Rust Developer - Aira, Stockholm, Sweden

• 🦀 Working student: Rust C/C++ interoperability and support - Bosch, Germany

• 🦀 Rust Developer - Intervall, Germany

• 🦀 Embedded Developer (C, Rust) to Clean Motion - The Techno Creatives, Sweden

• 🦀 Embedded Rust Developer - Unikie, Finland

• 🦀 Research Scientist for Embedded Software and Security - Siemens, Portugal

• 🦀 Software Architect for Embedded Systems - Siemens, Portugal

• 🦀 Embedded Software Developer - Siemens, Portugal

• 🦀 Senior Embedded Software Developer - Siemens, Portugal

• 🦀 Embedded Software Engineer - Gama Space, Paris, France

North America Based Jobs 🌎️ 

• 🦀 📡 Embedded Software Engineer - Umbra, Santa Barbara, CA

• 🦀 📡 Senior Embedded Software Engineer - Umbra, Santa Barbara, CA

• 🦀 📡 Senior Embedded Software Engineer - Turion Space, Irvine, CA

• 🦀 Jr. Embedded engineer (electronics & programming) - Interstellar Lab, Multiple Locations (America and Europe)

• 🦀 Sr. Embedded Engineer (electronics & programming) - Interstellar Lab, Multiple Locations (America and Europe)

• 🦀 Robotics Software Engineer (Rust) - Pictorus, Oakland, CA

• 🦀 Rust Software Engineer - Enfabrica, San Francisco, CA

• 🦀 Systems Engineer (Rust) - Matician, Mountain View, CA

• 🦀 Software Engineer, Embedded System - Fourier, Palo Alto, CA

• 🦀 Kernel Engineer, Embedded Systems, Pixel Core Platform/BSP - Google, CA

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Keep Crafting in Rust, 🦀

- Omar