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Issue Highlights

🏛️ White House weighs in on memory-safe languages
🪲 Lauterbach launches support for Rust
💻️ A headless ESP oscilloscope
🐍 Rust enabled package management for Python
🎤 EuroRust and RustConf 2024 locations and dates announced
🎙️ An Embedded-focused Rusty Bytes Podcast Released
🦀 Rust annual survey results are out
📚️ Rust 101 Evolves to teach-rs
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News & Article Roundup

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

Embedded Rust News 📰

• Lauterbach supports Rust Development Platform for Infineon AURIX ⭐️ 

• Oxidize conference call for proposals open

• probe-rs 0.23.0 released!

• Rusty Bytes Podcast Released ⭐️ 

Rust News 🗞️ 🦀 

• 2023 Annual Rust Survey Results ⭐️ 

• White House Press Release: Future Software Should Be Memory Safe ⭐️ 

• Save the Date: RustConf 2024 - September 10-13 ⭐️ 

• After decades of memory-related software bugs, White House calls on industry to act ⭐️ 

• Teach-rs: Rust 101 evolved (Project Seeking Sponsorships) ⭐️ 

• Updated baseline standards for Windows targets

• Clippy: Deprecating feature = "cargo-clippy"

• Leadership Council March Representative Selections

• Rust Community Prioritizes Performance Over New Features

• Rust participates in Google Summer of Code 2024

• Warp, Rust-Based Terminal with AI, is Now Available on Linux

• uv: Python packaging in Rust ⭐️ 

• Microsoft: We Are Not ‘Abandoning’ C# for Rust

• The Linux Kernel Prepares For Rust 1.77 Upgrade

General Embedded News/Trends 📈 

• Apple Kills Its Electric Car Project ⭐️ 

• Arm CSA and AMBA release provide boost for chiplet ecosystem

• Infineon introduces lower-cost Bluetooth long-range module for low-power applications

Comparisons with other Languages 🔍️ 

• Too dangerous for C++

• 3 Pieces of Code I Can Write in Rust (but not Go)

• Rust vs C++. A Performance Comparison. Part 2

• Speed of Rust vs. C

Hardware Announcements 🛠️ 

• Waveshare RP2040-BLE is a Raspberry Pi RP2040 module with Bluetooth LE connectivity

• Arduino Nano 33 BLE Rev2 board features BMI270 six-axis IMU and BMM150 magnetometer

• Waveshare Launches New SIMCom-Equipped Espressif ESP32-S3 Boards for Cellular IoT Projects

• DFRobot Gravity – An Offline Voice Recognition Module for Arduino, Raspberry Pi, ESP32

• Waveshare R7FA4 PLUS A and B boards are clones of the Arduino UNO R4 Minima and WiFi

• Microchip launches $132 PolarFire SoC discovery kit

• Olimex's USB-NeoHub Promises Perfect Compatibility with TinyUSB on the Raspberry Pi RP2040

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Educational Resources

A curation of embedded Rust educational resources and tutorials

Tutorials & Walkthroughs 📫

• ESP Embedded Rust: Ping CLI App Part 1

• ESP Embedded Rust: Ping CLI App Part 2

Insights, Tools, & Case Studies 📑

• Rust & Vendor SDKs (I)

• Sequential-storage: efficiently store data in flash

• Building an Async Runtime with mio

• Using the Uuid Crate in Rust

• Will Rust’s embedded-hal crate open Rust to embedded?

• Understanding Closures in Rust

• StringZilla: Up to 10x faster strings for C, C++, Python, Rust, and Swift

• Rust Cargo & Why I Like It

General Embedded 📟️ 

• ESP32 Oscilloscope Skips Screen for the Browser ⭐️ 

• Firmware Over-The-Air (FOTA) Updates on ESP32

• Full .NET 8 on an embedded device

• ESP32-RS-232 Adapter: A Wireless Link for Classic Test Equipment

• Build Custom ESP32 Boards From Scratch! | The Complete Guide

• Backdoor Techniques for Remote Control on Embedded Devices

• Avoid I2C Address Conflicts On ESP32 By Pin Muxing

• Programming embedded systems: software tracing with printf()

• Real-Time Operating Systems (RTOS) in Embedded Systems

• Easily read out Sensirion sensor measurements on ESP32

• Deep Dive: A Complete Automated Yocto-Linux Build Setup for RaspberryPi

• Renesas, STMicroelectronics and Ac6 join the Zephyr Project as it Launches the 3.6 Release

• Embedded TypeScript: Hosting a Front End on a ESP32 with Rust

• ESP32: Make HTTPS Requests using SIM Card – LILYGO T-SIM7000G

• World's Easiest Gpt-like Voice Assistant

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Noteworthy Mentions

Useful resources worth mentioning

Noteworthy Course 🧑‍🏫 

🏫 Embedded Rust Debugging

Noteworthy Book 📚️ 

📕 Building Embedded Linux Systems

Noteworthy Newsletter 📰 

📰 tl;dr sec - Keep up with CyberSecurity

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Updates, Events, & Announcements

Updates & announcements from the community

Notable Device and/or Framework Crate Updates 🚨 

• riscv v0.11.1

• riscv-rt v0.12.2

• rtic v2.1.0

• svd2rust v0.32.0

• svdtools v0.3.10

• probe-rs v0.23.0

• esp-idf-svc v0.48.1

• esp-idf-hal v0.43.1

• esp-idf-sys v0.34.1

• embedded-svc v0.27.1

• cargo-embassy v0.2.0

• cargo-espflash v2.1.0

• espflash v2.1.0

• Several esp32xx pacs

Upcoming/New Learning Resources & Training 📚

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

• Embedded Rust - KDAB/Ferrous Systems, Online, May, 22nd, 2024

Upcoming Events & Deadlines 🎭

• Rust: A game changer in automotive software development - Webinar, March 12th, 2024

• Unlocking Edge AI: Advanced Features of Edge Impulse - Webinar - March 12th, 2024

• RISC-V Foundation Mentorship Proposals (Summer 2024 Session) - Submission Deadline: March 25th, 2024

• Rust Nation UK - March 26th - 28th, 2024

• Automotive Tech Forum 2024 - Virtual - March 27th & 28th, 2024

• Embedded World - April 9th - 11th, 2024, Nurnberg, Germany

• Embedded Open Source Summit - April 16th - 18th, 2024, Seattle, Washington

• Tinytapeout 6 - Submission Deadline: April 19th, 2024

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

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

• RustNL - May 7th & 8th, 2024, Delft, Netherlands

• Oxidize - CFP Deadline March 28th - May 28th - 30th, 2024, Berlin, Germany

• RustFest Zurich - June 19th - 24th, 2024, Zurich, Switzerland

• RustConf 2024 - September 10-13, 2024, Montreal, Canada

• EuroRust - Hybrid - October 10th & 11th, 2024 , Vienna, Austria

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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 🌍️ 

• 🦀 Project Manager - Ferrous Systems, Germany

• 🦀 Senior Embedded Software Engineer - Yaak, Berlin, Germany

• 🦀 Embedded C++/Rust Developer - Fernride, Munich, Germany

• 🦀 OS Tool Software Engineer - 42dot, Warsaw, Poland

• 🦀 Zephyr Embedded Software Engineer - UL Solutions, Erlangen, Germany

• 🦀 Software Engineer - Rohde & Schwarz, Dresden, Germany

• 🦀 Working Student job/internship Embedded Software/Connected Systems & IoT DevOps Engineer/Full Stack Developer - Liebherr, Ulm, Germany

• 🦀 Embedded Software Innovation Engineer - Codasip, Munich, Germany

• 🦀 Embedded Systems Engineer, Software Platform - Wayve, London, UK

• 🦀 Internship: Industrial Setup for Formal Verification of Microcontroller - Infineon, Germany

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

• 🦀 Rust Developer - Intervall, Germany

• 🦀 Software Architect for Embedded Systems - Siemens, Portugal

• 🦀 Embedded Software Developer - Siemens, Portugal

North America Based Jobs 🌎️ 

• 🦀 Flight Software Engineer - York Space Systems, Greenwood Village, CO

• 🦀 Sr Software Engineer - Toyota Connected NA, Plano, TX

• 🦀 Embedded Software Dev Engineer II, Project Kuiper Ground Gateway Services - Amazon, Redmond, WA

• 🦀 Embedded Software Engineer - SmartThings, 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

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

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