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Issue Highlights

✍️ Safety Critical Rust Survey Announced
🤖 EdgeAI Developer Survey Announced
🐧 Linux Foundation Drops RISC-V RT-Thread Course
🐭 Ratatui Coming to Embedded
💻️ Corust - An open source collaborative code editor for Rust
⬆️ Embedded Rust Adoption Tracker Updated
 

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News & Article Roundup

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

Embedded Rust News 📰

• Ratatui - Are We Embedded Yet? ⭐️

• BlueBirdPower is Adopting Rust

Rust News 🗞️🦀

• Google Docs now supports HTML, Rust, C#, and more code languages

• Llama-CPP, Rust, UV, Python-Pydantic-Core, Webkit2GTK updates for Fedora

• Adoption of Safety-Critical Rust Survey ⭐️

• I am stepping back from maintaining ‘cargo audit’

• Project RP004: Support for a 64-bit RISC-V Linux port of Rust to Tier-1

• Liebherr Adopts Rust for its Fleet Diagnostic Software

• crates.io security incident: improperly stored session cookies

• This Month in Our Test Infra: March 2025 issue

General Embedded News/Trends 📈

• Arduino's Cloud Editor Gets an LLM-Powered Helper: The Arduino AI Assistant

• How a Critical ESP32 Chip Flaw Threatens the Security of Bitcoin Wallets

• Arduino Makes Moves Towards PLA-Flax "Bio-Board" PCBs, Promises Beta Boards Next Year

• New Rust Botnet Hijacking Routers to Inject Commands Remotely

• ABB plans to spin off its robotics division as a separately listed company

• 2025 Edge AI Developer Survey ⭐️

Comparisons with other Languages 🔍️

• The promise of Rust

• From C to Rust to Go: What Native Really Offers Today

• Concurrency in Haskell: Fast, Simple, Correct

• Don't Cry about Pointers anymore - Deep Dive with C, Go and Rust

Hardware 🛠️

• MicroMac Raspberry Pi Pico Macintosh Emulator Kit

• Raspberry Pi Pico-sized RP2350 CAN development board

• SPARK Microsystems SR1120 UWB ultra-low-power transceiver

• Thin PoE HAT for Raspberry Pi 5

• Cervoz M.2 SFP Ethernet expansion modules support long cables (up to several kilometers) for robotics

• W6300-EVB-Pico2 board combines RP2350 MCU with WIZnet W6300 QSPI Ethernet controller for 80+ Mbps data rate

• Sony AS-DT1 tiny industrial LiDAR depth sensor can operate under bright conditions (up to 100,000 lux)

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Educational Resources

A curation of embedded & Rust educational resources and tutorials

Tutorials & Walkthroughs 📫

• Rust Concurrency: When to Use (and Avoid) Async Runtimes

• Practical recursion schemes in Rust: traversing and extending trees

• Bringing Java’s MapStruct to Rust

• Fun ways to generate random numbers in Rust

• Rust × Burn Adventure — Part 2

Insights, Tools, & Case Studies 📑

• Corust - A collaborative Rust Playground ⭐️

• XENSIV™ BGT60TRxx FMCW Radar Sensor Driver Crate

• The Entire Rust panicking process, described in great detail.

• AgentKit: A Technical Vision for Building Universal AI Automation for Human-Computer Interaction Based on Rust

• Podcast - Microsoft - Victor Ciura, Principal Engineer

• The promise of Rust

• Rust Concurrency: Common Async Pitfalls Explained

• Emerging Software Development Trends to Watch in April 2025

• Say Hello to UV: A Fast Python Package & Project Manager Written in Rust

• A Rust library for programmatically generating LaTeX documents ⭐️

• Cutting down Rust compile times from 30 to 2 minutes with one thousand crates

• Learning from Embedded Software Development for the Space Shuttle and the Orion MPCV

• VectorDB-CLI: A semantic code search tool I built in Rust

• Graph API - an ergonomic library for working with in memory graphs in Rust

• Unsafe Blocks in Embedded Rust: Why Rust Still Shines at the Low Level

• Tracker offers real-time satellite tracks and orbit prediction

• A 2025 Survey of Rust GUI Libraries

• A Visual Journey Through Async Rust

• Writing Production Rust Macros with macro_rules!

• Rust to C compiler – 95.9% test pass rate, odd platforms

• Sapphire: Rust based package manager for macOS

• Understanding Rust’s Sized Trait and Dynamically Sized Types

• Bringing Java's MapStruct to Rust

• Working with Files and the Filesystem in Rust

• Best Practices for Securing Medical Devices

• SIMD in zlib-rs (part 1): Autovectorization and target features

• Rust’s Hidden Dangers: Unsafe, Embedded, and FFI Risks

• Rust Memory Safety Prevents In-The-Field Fixes

General Embedded 📟️

• Open Source RT-Thread RTOS on RISC-V ⭐️

• The role of open source software in embedded systems

• Raspberry Pi Lidar Scanner

• Informal Testing Proves that Wi-Fi HaLow is the Real Deal

• Embench IOT 2.0 and DSP 1.0: Modern Embedded Computing Benchmarks

• Technical Aspects of Deploying UAV and Ground Robots for Intelligent Logistics Using YOLO on Embedded Systems

• High-Level Reconfigurable Embedded System Design Based on Heterogeneous Models of Computation

• Secure Key-Value Store for Raspberry Pi Pico

• PQ-CAN: A Framework for Simulating Post-Quantum Cryptography in Embedded Systems

• I Open-Sourced My AI Toy Company That Runs on ESP32 and OpenAI Realtime API

• How to Achieve Deterministic Behavior in Real-Time Embedded Systems

• Efficient human activity recognition on edge devices using DeepConv LSTM architectures

• OpenWrt – Linux distribution targeting embedded devices

• Complexity of Post-Quantum Cryptography in Embedded Systems and Its Optimization Strategies

• The Minimal Way to Store Configuration on Raspberry Pi Pico

• LoRa and Raspberry Pi Pico W: Building a Sender-Receiver

• Robotisim robotics microros esp32 activity 7320770689282490368 RsC9

• BPS is a GPS alternative working over ATSC 3.0 digital TV signals

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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 🚨

• burn-ndarray v0.17.0

• atsamd-hal v0.21.2

• mousefood v0.2.1

• postcard-rpc v0.11.9

• os-terminal v0.6.8

• esp-csi-rs v0.1.1

• esp32-nimble v0.11.1

Upcoming Events & Deadlines 🎭

• 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) Embedded Systems Engineering Intern - Gama, Paris, France

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

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

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

• 🦀 Rust Developer/Promoter - Collabora, Remote

• 🦀 Rust Engineering Lead - Linux and Open Source - Canonical, Global, Hybrid

• 🦀 Doctoral Thesis: Functional Software Generation - Infineon, Munich, Germany

North America-Based Jobs 🌎️

• 🦀 (New) QNX Senior Systems Software Developer (Rust Developer) - QNX, Ottawa, Ontario

• 🦀 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

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

• 🦀 Rust Engineering Lead - Linux and Open Source - Canonical, Global, Hybrid

• 🦀 Various Rust-Oriented Positions - MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Lexington, MA

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Poststation is a tool from James Munns for connecting embedded devices with applications running on a PC, laptop, or embedded linux system. It works with any device speaking the postcard-rpc protocol. See more and download at poststation.rs, and if you like it, purchase a license with discount code ERNEWSLTR5 for 10% off to support the Embedded Rustacean Newsletter!