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Issue Highlights

🔌 probe-rs 0.22.0 is released with xtensa support
🔓️ Researchers manage to get root access to Tesla's Autopilot computer
📢 Rust 1.75.0 is out

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Embedded Rust News 📰

• New probe-rs release drops now with xtensa support

• Cortex-M Targets Miscompilation Advisory 

Rust Community News 🗞️ 🦀 

• Announcing Rust 1.75.0

• This Development-cycle in Cargo: 1.76

• Rustc Trait System Refactor Initiative Update: A call for testing

• Introducing Fuzzomatic: Using AI to Automatically Fuzz Rust Projects from Scratch

• Maestro: A Linux-compatible kernel in Rust

• Announcing cargo-assist

General Embedded News/Trends 📈 

• Recovering Critical Data from Tesla Autopilot Using Voltage Glitching

• embedUR Inc joins TinyML Foundation as a Platinum Strategic Partner

• NXP and Foxconn launch SDV development lab

• EMBA: Open-Source Security Analyzer for Embedded Devices

• LILYGO's T4 S3 Puts an Espressif ESP32-S3 and 8MB of PSRAM Behind a Bright, Colorful AMOLED Display

• Espressif Unveils $10 ESP32-H2-DevKitM-1 for IoT Applications

• Recovering Critical Data from Tesla Autopilot Using Voltage Glitching

Comparisons with other Languages 🔍️ 

• Why JavaScript developers are switching to Rust in 2024 and why not

• Zig Vs Rust: A Comprehensive Comparison for Modern Developers

• GO vs RUST speed test | Which one to choose in 2024

• After a day of programming in Zig

Tutorials & Walkthroughs 📫

• Test-driven embedded rust development

• Rust on ESP32: Amoled display (part 1)

• Rust on ESP32 - Amoled display (part 2)

• Testing Your Embedded Rust (feat. embedded-hal-mock and explosions)

Insights, Tools, & Case Studies 📑

• Rust: Multithreading

• What is Rust and Why Should You Use It?

• Mixing C++ and Rust for Fun and Profit: Part 1

• Embedded Developer’s New Year’s Resolution

• Rust Learning Note: Multithreading

• 2023: Slint in Review

• Rust Learning Note: Smart Pointer

• What I'd like to see for Async Rust in 2024

• Exploring the AWS SDK for Rust: Design Overview and Practical Usage Guide

• Rust Learning Note: Creating a Timer with Async/Await

• How we built a Swift app that uses Rust

• How to Build Abstractions in Rust Applications: The Missing Rung on the Rust Education Ladder

• Using Raspberry PI in Virtualization: Unlocking New Possibilities

• Elektor and Electronics in 2024: A Look Ahead and Last Year in Review

General Embedded 📟️ 

• How to run Arduino on Linux using RISC-V MCUs?

• Getting Started With the Zephyr RTOS

• Logging on Embedded Devices

• Dive Into the Future of Matter and the IoT with Elektor & Espressif

• Towards Raspberry Pi 6 with ever more powerful graphics

• ESP32 with WebSerial: A Comprehensive Guide

• Embedded Systems Programming series

• Keeping Pace with Dynamic Content: Raspberry Pi Audio Source Localization & Computer Vision for Advanced Camera Tracking

• Programming embedded systems: automatic code generation

• Charles Giguere's GPIOViewer Library Gives You "X-Ray Vision" Into Espressif ESP32-Based Projects

Rewrite it in Rust - Project Inspiration ✏️ 🦀 

• Ultra-Basic Thermal Camera Built Using Arduino Uno

• Arduino Measures Remaining Battery Power With Zero Components, No I/O Pin

• Raspberry Pi Pico Parallel Mandelbrot Computation

Device and/or Framework Crate Updates 🚨 

• embassy-net v0.3.0

• svd2rust v0.31.5

• linux-embedded-hal v0.3.2

• probe-rs v0.22.0

• svdtools v0.3.8

• atsams several PACs

Upcoming/New Learning Resources & Training 📚

• Why Rust? - KDAB, Online, January, 10th, 2024

• Introduction to Rust - KDAB/Ferrous Systems, Online, January, 29th, 2024

• Introduction to Rust - KDAB/Ferrous Systems, Online, February, 26th, 2024

• Embedded Rust - KDAB/Ferrous Systems, Online, March, 6th, 2024

Upcoming Events & Deadlines 🎭

• STM32 Wireless Innovation Design Contest - Submission Deadline: February 19th, 2024

• 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

• Embedded Online Conference - April 29th - May 3rd, 2024, Online

• Open Hardware Summit - May 3rd & 4th, 2024, Montreal, Canada

Noteworthy Hardware 🛠️ 

📟️ MEMENTO is an ESP32-S3-based, CircuitPython or Arduino programmable DIY camera module

Noteworthy Repo or Crates 📦️ 

📦️ LwSHELL: Lightweight shell implementation for embedded systems
📦️ ocrs - A new open source OCR engine, written in Rust

Noteworthy Post/Article/Interview 🖼️

📰 Ultra Low-powered Linux Computer Using Mcu

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 Software Innovation Engineer - Codasip, Munich, 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

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

• 🦀 Rust Developer - Intervall, Germany

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

• 🦀 Software Architect for Embedded Systems - Siemens, Portugal

• 🦀 Embedded Software Developer - Siemens, Portugal

North America Based Jobs 🌎️ 

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

• 🦀 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

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

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

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Rust Regards and Binary Blessings, 🦀

- Omar