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Issue Highlights

🔗 Qualcomm Open Sources Embedded Linker
🤖 Edge Impulse Introduces Rust Support
🛠️ Cursor Rust Tools
🔷 Embassy Releases TrouBLE
💻️ Ariel OS is a new embedded Rust OS
🦀 Rust 1.86.0 is out
🚘️ Hyundai and Li SDV OS Announcements
💰️ Infineon Acquires Marvell’s Ethernet Business
 

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News & Article Roundup

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

Embedded Rust News 📰

• Bringing Edge AI to Rust: Introducing the Edge Impulse Rust Library ⭐️

• Introducing Ariel OS - an embedded library OS for small MCUs ⭐️

• OneVariable : Embedded Rust in Production 2025

• Pictorus: Whats New Q1 2025

• Embassy Trouble released ⭐️

Rust News 🗞️🦀

• Announcing Rust 1.86.0 ⭐️

• Help us create a vision for Rust's future 

• Shadertoys ported to Rust GPU

• Introducing Huly Code: A Free Open-Source IDE with First-Class Rust Support

• Sonatype Supports Secure Development in Rust

• New macOS Malware ‘ReaderUpdate’ Upgraded Arsenal With Nim and Rust Variants

• Many Rust Changes Submitted For Linux 6.15

• C ABI Changes for wasm32-unknown-unknown

• March Project Goals Update

• March 2025 Project Director Update

• Introducing Feedr: A terminal-based RSS feed reader written in Rust!

• Introducing BrickBeam – A New Rust Library for LEGO® IR Control on Raspberry Pi

General Embedded News/Trends 📈

• Renesas Ready Partner Program and Linaro ONELab Join Forces to Revolutionize IoT and Edge Computing

• ELD: A new open-source embedded linker tool for embedded systems ⭐️

• Global Interest in Raspberry Pi’s Low-Cost Computing Platform Grows

• Green Hills Software accelerates safety system development with Texas Instruments’ new AM26x microcontroller platform

• Raspberry Pi not affected by Trump tariffs yet while China-tied rivals feel the heat

• Qualcomm buys MovianAI to boost generative AI capabilities 

• Samtec Future-Proofs Connectors for High-Speed Embedded Systems

• Raspberry Pi Makes the RP2350 Available in Single-Chip Quantities, Teases Integrated Flash Variants

• Renesas Introduces Highly Integrated LCD Video Processor that Enables Next-Generation ASIL B Automotive Display Systems

• ROOL Calls for Aid As It Seeks to Modernize Acorn's RISC OS for the Era of the 64-Bit Raspberry Pi

• Raspberry Pi profits drop in first results since IPO

• Li auto inc march 2025 delivery update ⭐️

• Infineon acquires Marvell’s Automotive Ethernet business ⭐️

• Seeed Studio XIAO RA4M1 Board Now Supported in Zephyr RTOS

• esptool: Updates about the upcoming v5 major release

• Hyundai Motor Group Launches ‘Pleos’ Software Brand, Unveiling New SDV Technologies and Collaborations ⭐️

Comparisons with other Languages 🔍️

• Should You Learn Rust and Zig? Yes, Yes You Should

• Introducing CForge: A Modern C/C++ Build System

• Why We Killed 276K Lines of C++ Code: Migrating a Cloud Database to Rust Saved Our Startup

• Repository-level Code Translation Benchmark Targeting Rust

• EngFlow Makes C++ Builds 21x Faster and Software a Lot Safer

Hardware 🛠️

• Seeed Studio XIAO RA4M1 Board Now Supported in Zephyr RTOS

• Espressif's Latest ESP32-P4 Module on a Raspberry Pi-Style Single-Board Computer

• Espressif ESP32-C3-Powered ePaper Smart Display for Home Assistant and More

• Pico Indicator adds LEDs to GPIO and power signals of the Raspberry Pi Pico and compatible boards

• Bus Servo Driver Board for Seeed Studio XIAO

• Nordic Semiconductor nRF9151DK Unboxing

• P42 Pico2 M.2 – A Raspberry Pi RP2350 board in M.2 form factor

• Beacon W5+ SoM – A tiny (27x15mm) Qualcomm Snapdragon W5+ System-on-Module for wearables

• SATURN NITRO – A Microchip PIC32MK development board with Arduino Nano form factor

• Orange Pi RV RISC-V SBC with StarFive JH7110 SoC launched

• PiEEG kit – A Raspberry Pi 5-based bioscience lab in a suitcase

• Elecrow Pico W5: A Better Raspberry Pi Pico Alternative?

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Educational Resources

A curation of embedded & Rust educational resources and tutorials

Tutorials & Walkthroughs 📫

• Rust on the Ferris Sweep

• Mastering Rust's Type State Pattern: Build Safer Code with Compile-Time State Machines

• Setting up a Macbook for Rust + ESP32

• Building a Real-Time Stock Ticker System with Rust and NATS to learn Rust basics

• Rust’s Generic Associated Types: What is It?

• Implementing a Slab Allocator in Rust

• Workshop to learn how to develop ROS2 applications using the Rust language

• Bevy Entity Component System on ESP32 with Rust no_std

Insights, Tools, & Case Studies 📑

• The best programmers I know

• High Cost Of Memory Safety Issues

• Traits in Rust Explained: From Usage to Internal Mechanics

• Understanding Rust’s Any Trait: Type Introspection Without Reflection

• A Year of Rust in ClickHouse

• Integrating the Rust toolchain into Rtools (1)

• Integrating the Rust toolchain into Rtools (2)

• Visualize Async Rust Task Execution in Real-Time

• Pitfalls of Safe Rust

• Why Azure is moving to Rust from C++

• Rust Design Patterns: Safer, More Efficient Implementations for Modern Software Architecture

• Things fall apart

• Memory-Safe Programming Languages and National Cybersecurity: — A Technical Review of Rust

• Garbage Collection for Rust: The Finalizer Frontier

• Replicating state changes across language barriers with Rust, UniFFI, and proc macros

• Simplify Video Frame Rate Adjustment in Rust: A Practical Guide for Developers

• Rust Performance Boost: Building Efficient Caching Systems From Scratch

• Rust Any part 3: we have upcasts

• Mastering Video Effects in Rust: Unleashing FFmpeg and OpenGL Like a Pro

• ESP LowCode Matter splits system and application firmware for simpler ESP32 device development

• Thinking like a compiler: places and values in Rust

• A Study of Undefined Behavior Across Foreign Function Boundaries in Rust Libraries

• PrettyOTA Is a More User-Friendly Take on Updating Espressif ESP32s Over-The-Air

• Borrowchecker.jl – Designing a borrow checker for Julia

• Practical recursion schemes in Rust: traversing and extending trees

  A surprising enum size optimization in the Rust compiler

• Implementing FFmpeg Filters with Rust: A New Approach to Video and Audio Processing

• Cursor rust tools ⭐️

• Tiny Computer, Big Headache - Porting Advent of Code to the Pi Pico

General Embedded 📟️

• Running Docker Containers on Kubernetes Without a Container Runtime Using WasmEdge

• Build a Custom Raspberry Pi OS with Buildroot

• How RISC-V Enables Shift-Left Practices for Securing Embedded Systems

• Compact Raspberry Pi Pico SDR Inspired by Crystal Radio Kits

• Enabling Ethernet support and OpenSSH on Raspberry Pi 5 with Buildroot

• Streamlining Arduino Development: Introducing Arduino-cli-interactive

• TinyML Forest Ranger: Illegal Logging Detection and Alert 🪵

• Dissecting the Bootlog of ASUS RT-N10E: A Deep Dive into Embedded Systems

• Tracking the international space station with an Arduino

• Qubit: Autonomous WASM Services + Declarative Orchestration for Embedded Systems

• Ownership-based Virtual Memory for Intermittently-Powered Embedded Systems

• OTA IoT Breakdown: What OTA Is and How It Works in IoT

• XIAO RA4M1 Getting Started in Arduino IDE

• A Web based Broadcast Assistant

• Want to learn Linux from legends? This mentorship pairs you with top developers

• Zephyr RTOS on Raspberry Pi Pico 2 - Part 1

• MicroZed Chronicles : Zephyr and MicroBlaze V

• Introduction to Bootloaders: A Guide for Embedded Developers for Efficient Firmware Updates

• Implementing Transfer Learning to Optimize an Edge AI Device

• Introduction to Zephyr Part 6: How to Write a Device Driver

• Choosing the Best NPU for On-Device AI

• Testing NXP S32K Automotive General-Purpose MCU in Renode simulation with Zephyr RTOS

• How do you set up a Raspberry Pi as a web server?

• State of Embedded: Q1 2025 Overview

• Getting Started with the New MCUXpresso SDK for NXP MCUs

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Noteworthy Mentions

Useful resources worth mentioning

Noteworthy Course 🧑‍🏫

🏫 Rust for System Programmers

Noteworthy Book 📚️

📕 Async Rust

Noteworthy Newsletter 📰

📰 tl;dr sec - Keep up with Cybersecurity in 7 min/week

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Updates, Events, & Announcements

Updates & announcements from the community

Notable Device and/or Framework Crate Updates 🚨

• zerocopy v0.8.24

• espup v0.15.0

• svd2rust v0.36.1

• atsamx7x-hal v0.4.6

• burn v0.16.1

• svdtools v0.4.6

• defmt v1.0.1

• edge-impulse-runner v1.0.0

• ftdi-embedded-hal v0.23.1

Upcoming Events & Deadlines 🎭

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

• Embedded Online Conference - May 12-16, 2025, Online

• 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 🌍️

• 🦀 (New) Firmware Engineer - IoT Biodiversity Sensors - Hula, Munich, Germany

• 🦀 (New) Embedded Rust (Medical) - Freelance, Munich, Germany

• 🦀 Rust Developer (Junior to Senior) - wallPen, Wissen, Germany

• 🦀 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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