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Issue Highlights

🧭 Navigate Rust in Embedded World
📀 Microsoft further embraces Rust in Azure SDK
🪁 PR for embassy on Zephyr
🤝 Intel, Infineon, Qualcomm, and others from an IoT Alliance
🦀 Espressif Launch the First Vendor Backed Rust Embedded SDK
⚡️ Getting closer to quantum computing
🧑‍💻 Lightway VPN Protocol Rewritten in Rust
💪 ARM’s ARMv9 Processor for Edge AI & Copilot Extension
🐟️ fish shell ported to Rust
 

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News & Article Roundup

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

Embedded Rust News 📰

• esp-hal 1.0.0 beta announcement ⭐️

• embassy support coming to Zephyr ⭐️

• A Rustacean's Guide to Embedded World 2025 ⭐️

• esp-hal, A Stable-API ESP32 HAL Gift For Your Rust Code

• Ferrocene 25.02.0 now available

• ViRust-AI is an upcoming ESP32 Agent Devkit for the Edge

• NDC { Techtown } Call for Papers Open

• TrustInSoft and Ferrous Systems Partner to Bring Rust Code Analysis to TrustInSoft’s Security Solutions

Rust News 🗞️🦀

• Announcing Rust 1.85.0 and Rust 2024 ⭐️

• fish shell core code ported to Rust in v4.0.0 ⭐️

• Rust Nation UK 2025 recordings are now available

• RustWeek Workshops Announced

• RustWeek Speaker Line up Announced

• Rust’s if/let While Chains: Cleaner Control Flow is Coming!

• ExpressVPN Rewrites Lightway VPN Protocol in Rust for Security ⭐️

• Leadership Council March 2025 Representative Selections

• Rust Foundation New Silver Member Announcement: Astral and adorsys

• February 2025 Project Director Update

• zlib-rs is faster than C

• Secure Boot Bypass: U-Boot Vulnerabilities Expose Embedded Devices

• Nyx Space and Rust Power Firefly's Blue Ghost Lunar Landing

• Torvalds: You can avoid Rust as a C maintainer, but you can't interfere with it

• Greg K-H: "Writing new code in Rust is a win for all of us"

• Microsoft's Rust Embrace Continues with Azure SDK Beta ⭐️

• Announcing the Public Preview of the Azure Cosmos DB SDK for Rust ⭐️

• Rust Integration in Linux Kernel Faces Challenges but Shows Progress

• Maturin : Bridging Python And Rust For Enhanced Package Development

General Embedded News/Trends 📈

• European Commission approves €920m funding package for new Infineon German chip fab

• EDGE AI FOUNDATION and Hackster.io Announce Strategic Partnership to Empower AI Innovation Through Global Design Challenges

• Arm Drives Next-Generation Performance for IoT with World’s First Armv9 Edge AI Platform ⭐️

• Renesas debuts ultra-low-power RA4L1 MCUs targeting IoT sensing and HMI applications

• Industry Leaders Team to Form Ambient IoT Alliance ⭐️

• Artificial Intelligence Meets Embedded Development with Microchip’s MPLAB AI Coding Assistant

• New Arm Extension for GitHub Copilot ⭐️

• Unlocking Zephyr Debugging: Tracealyzer Now Validated on 600+ Development Boards

• Morse Micro Announces World’s First Wi-Fi 4 and HaLow Certified Router

• Linux royalty backs adoption of Rust for kernel code, says its rise is inevitable

• Ubuntu 24.04.2 released with Linux 6.11 kernel and hardware enablement stack

• KiCAD 9.0.0 is out

• The Raspberry Pi RP2040 Gets a Surprise Speed Boost, Unlocks an Official 200MHz Mode

• Introducing Pi-hole v6

• Microsoft’s Majorana 1 chip carves new path for quantum computing ⭐️

• Announcing ESP-TEE Framework for ESP32-C6

• Percepio Detect seeks observability of embedded systems

Comparisons with other Languages 🔍️

• Rust vs Python: Differences and Ideal Use Cases

• Speed Testing Programming Languages

• How Rust, Python, Java, Make Developers Happy

Hardware 🛠️

• Checking Out The RISC V HiFive P550 from SiFive!

• Seeed Studio XIAO nRF52840 now runs Apache NuttX

• LLMStick – An AI and LLM USB device based on Raspberry Pi Zero W

• Seeed Studio Now on GrabCAD & Thingiverse: Open-Source Designs for Makers

• Argon Forty Prepares to Launch a Raspberry Pi Compute Module 5-Powered Laptop

• LLMStick – An AI and LLM USB device based on Raspberry Pi Zero W

• Adafruit Taps "timonsku" to Build a Feature-Packed Camera Carrier for the Raspberry Pi CM4, CM5

• PocketBeagle 2 SBC combines TI AM6232 dual-core Cortex-A53 SoC with MSPM0 MCU

• The RISC-V Architecture: 16 Boards and MCUs You Should Know

• Silicon Labs Launches Its MG26 Wireless SoC Family

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Educational Resources

A curation of embedded & Rust educational resources and tutorials

Tutorials & Walkthroughs 📫

• Creating a USB game controller with ESP32 and Rust

• Embedded Rust Development Tips with Embassy

• Rust’s Async Closures: A New Way to Handle Asynchronous Logic

• How Rust & Embassy Shine on Embedded Devices (Part 1)

• How Rust & Embassy Shine on Embedded Devices (Part 2)

• Build your own SQLite in Rust, Part 5: Evaluating queries

• Building a Compiler & Interpreter in Rust! Part 3

Insights, Tools, & Case Studies 📑

• Securing tomorrow's software: the need for memory safety standards

• Socrates is a state machine

• Lessons from rewriting systems software in Rust

• Async Rust: When to Use It and When to Avoid It

• Visualize Ownership and Lifetimes in Rust

• Solving the ABA Problem in Rust with Tagged Pointers

• Tracking Removed Features in Rust Crates: A Practical Guide

• Rust based bluetooth dynamometer designed for finger training powered by ESP32

• I made a wifi traffic visualizer to learn Rust

• A Meticulous Guide to Advances in Deep Learning Efficiency over the Years

• The Missing Guide to Rust's Atomic::Ordering

• Macros vs. Functions in Rust: When to Use Which?

General Embedded 📟️

• On-device edge learning for IoT data streams: a survey

• How to Use Flutter for IoT and Embedded Devices

• ReTMiC: Reliability-Aware Thermal Management in Multicore Mixed-Criticality Embedded Systems

• Why FreeBSD is the right choice for embedded devices

• Exploring the Invisible World with the ESP32

• Why std::this_thread::sleep_for() is broken on ESP32

• BDD For Embedded Systems

• Speech to Text on the ESP32 with Gemini

• exo software – A distributed LLM solution running on a cluster of computers, smartphones, or SBCs

• Experimenting with SLMs for IoT Control

• ESPNowCam library enables ESP32 video camera or data transmission with the ESP-NOW protocol

• Running DeepSeek R1 Locally on a Raspberry Pi

• Open Source AI Frameworks: Integrating AI with IoT

• The 8-Bit Era's Weird Uncle: The TI-99/4A

• Building Embedded Linux System from scratch – Practical series – Part 2/4 – Building U-Boot Bootloader

• Node-Red GUI to Monitor the Raspberry Pi Resources Over the Internet

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Noteworthy Mentions

Useful resources worth mentioning

Noteworthy Course 🧑‍🏫

🏫 Rust for System Programmers

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 🚨

• esp-wifi v0.13.0

• esp-hal-embassy v0.7.0

• esp-println v0.13.1

• portable-atomic v1.11.0

• max7800x-hal v0.7.0

• zerocopy v0.8.20

• semihosting v0.1.19

• riscv-rt v0.14.0

• defmt-test v0.3.3

• esp32-nimble v0.10.2

Upcoming Events & Deadlines 🎭

• Rust in Paris  - March 14, 2025, Paris, France

• Rustikon - March 26, 2025, Warsaw, Poland

• RUSTAsia - March 28, 2025, Hong Kong + Online

• Rust Konf Türkiye - April 20, 2025, Istanbul, Turkey

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

• Open Hardware Summit - 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, Seattle, USA

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

• NDC Techtown - Call for Papers Open - September 22-25, Kongsberg, Norway

• 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 🌍️

• 🦀 Embedded Linux Developer - Distran, Zurich

• 🦀 Rust Developer/Promoter - Collabora, Remote

• 🦀 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

North America Based Jobs 🌎️

• 🦀 Rust Software Engineer, Vehicle Simulation - Tesla, Palo Alto, CA

• 🦀 Open Source Robotics Engineer - rerun.io, Remote

• 🦀 Sr. Embedded Software Engineer, Customer Hardware (Starlink) - SpaceX, Bastrop, TX

• 🦀 Rust embedded Software Engineer - General Dynamics, Dedham, MA

• 🦀 Sr. Embedded Software Engineer, Energy Products - Tesla, Palo Alto, SF

• 🦀 Flight Software in Rust - NASA, USA

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

• 🦀 Satellite Flight Software Engineer (Rust), Senior - Lynk, Falls Church, VA

• 🦀 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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