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Issue Highlights

🔒️ Ferrocene officially qualified
⌚️ BlueOS emerges based on Rust
🗄️ Rust Powering Twitter/X Vector Database
🤖 Google paving the way for Android on RISC-V
🍓 ARM invests in Raspberry Pi
🔨 Ferrous joins ARM Partner Ecosystem
💻️ AMD/Xilinx Introduces soft-core RISC-V Processor IP

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Embedded Rust News 📰

• Vivo Unveils BlueOS, Based On Rust Language, Making Debut With Vivo Watch 3 🚨 

• sudo-rs' first security audit

• Ferrous joins ARM partner ecosystem 🚨 

• Ferrocene officially qualified 🚨 

Rust Community News 🗞️ 🦀 

• Google Rewriting Android's Binder In Rust With Promising Results

• Rust Vector Database is now powering X (Twitter) 🚨 

• A tale of broken badges and 23,000 features

• crates.io: Dropping support for non-canonical downloads

• Faster compilation with the parallel front-end in nightly

General Embedded News/Trends 📈 

• Announcing the Arduino ESP32 Core version 3.0.0

• Raspberry Pi Pico Gets Unofficial Support for the Arduino Framework

• NECTO Studio 5 Brings a Paradigm Shift in Embedded Systems Development

• Arm makes strategic investment in Raspberry Pi  🚨 

• Infineon Pushes Machine Learning to the Edge With New MCU Family

• Infineon launches privacy-centric sleep quality service for OEMs

• Memfault and Golioth To Bring Observability and Device Management to NXP™ Semiconductors Devices

• Arduino Builds a Bridge to the Raspberry Pi Ecosystem with Its New Portenta H

• Seeed Studio Expands Global Footprint with New Offices in the US and EMEA

• Renesas RA8 Microcontrollers Are Industry's First with Arm Cortex-M85 Core and Now Available

• Google Gets Serious About Android on RISC-V, Releases a Rough Roadmap to Emulator Availability 🚨 

• AMD/Xilinx Introduces Microblaze V a soft-core RISC-V processor IP 🚨 

Comparisons with other Languages 🔍️ 

• Which programming language should you use for a Raspberry Pi?

• DigiSpark (ATTiny85) – Arduino, C, Rust, build systems

• Why We Chose Go over Rust for Our Next Startup

• Python vs Rust. Memory Usage and Speed

• Rust + WebAssembly: building infrastructure for Large Language Model ecosystems

• Why Golang instead of Rust to develop the Krater desktop app

Tutorials & Walkthroughs 📫

• Edge IoT with Rust on ESP: MQTT Subscriber 🔥 

• Edge IoT with Rust on ESP: NTP 🔥 

• Rendering Tidbyt graphics in Rust

• Mastering IoT with Embedded Rust and Dart: Building a Remote Servo Motor Control System with Rust, ESP32 and Flutter

Insights, Tools, & Case Studies 📑

• Introduction to Code Generation in Rust

• Open-source Rust driver development platform

• Embedded Rust will ALWAYS Be Unsafe #EmbeddedRust #UnsafeCode #InterruptDriven #Programming

• How to set up Rust in GitHub Actions

• Dealing with Dependencies in Rust

• Impl Trait aka Look ma’, no generics! by Jon Gjengset 

• Why Ferrocene? 🔥 

General Embedded 📟️ 

• CHERIoT: Complete Memory Safety for Embedded Devices 🔍️ 

• Testing Embedded Software

• Website hosted on ESP32

• Vulnerabilities in Embedded Systems and The Evolving Cybersecurity Regulations Landscape

• Safeguarding Embedded Systems: The Dual Focus on Safety and Security

• Programming embedded systems: state tables and state entry/exit actions

• Dual Pillars of Embedded Systems: Ensuring Safety and Security

• Elevating Edge AI: Nvidia's Generative AI and Embedded Systems Synergy

• Revolutionizing Hardware with Embedded Software Development

• Navigating Challenges in Embedded Systems with C Programming

• TLV: A Powerful Tool for handling Data in Embedded Systems

• Semihosting with VS Code on RP2040

• I am using Google’s Teachable Machine on a Raspberry Pi Zero

• Ultra-Efficient On-Device Object Detection on AI-Integrated Smart Glasses with TinyissimoYOLO

• MicroZed Chronicles: Introducing Vitis Unified IDE

Rewrite it in Rust - Project Inspiration ✏️ 🦀 

• From Microcontroller to Mini TV: Greening’s ESP32 Breakthrough

• A 32-Bit RISC-V CPU Core In 600 Lines Of C

Device and/or Framework Crate Updates 🚨 

• edge-executor v0.4.1

• esp-idf-sys v0.33.7

• espup v0.8.0

• embassy-executor v0.3.2

• embedded-svc v0.26.2

• stm32h7xx-hal v0.15.1

• embedded-text v0.7.0

• esp-idf-svc v0.47.2

• esp-idf-hal v0.42.4

• embedded-hal-mock v0.9.0

• esp32s3-hal v0.13.0

• esp32s2-hal v0.13.0

• esp32h2-hal v0.4.0

• esp32c6-hal v0.6.0

• esp32c3-hal v0.13.0

• esp32c2-hal v0.11.0

• esp32-hal v0.16.0

• embassy-net v0.2.1

• embassy-sync v0.4.0

• portable-atomic v1.5.1

Upcoming/New Learning Resources & Training 📚

• (Not Rust Oriented) An Introduction to Programming the Internet of Things (IoT) Specialization - Coursera, November, 10th, 2023

Upcoming Events & Deadlines 🎭

• 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 🛠️ 

📟️ The PowerFeather Is an Espressif ESP32-S3 Board Tailored for Off-Grid Solar-Powered Projects

Noteworthy Repo or Crates 📦️ 

📦️ evcxr - A Rust REPL Tool

Noteworthy Post/Article/Interview 🖼️

💭 Rewriting CAD in 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 Software Engineer - Rohde & Schwarz, Dresden, Germany

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

• 🦀 Rust Engineer - Fusion Engineering, Delft, Netherlands

• 🦀 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

• 🦀 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 🌎️ 

• 🦀 (New) Staff Embedded Software Engineer - SmartThings, Hybrid, Minneapolis, MN

• 🦀 (New) Embedded Software Engineer - SmartThings, Hybrid, Minneapolis, MN

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

• 🦀 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