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Issue Highlights

🤖 Waveshare announces UGV platform for AI Robotics
🍓 Raspberry Pi Connect beta is announced
🪨 Espressif hits milestone with its ZeroCode Platform
🤕 Signs of recovery among embedded suppliers
♾️ Arduino Cloud now supports tablets
🦀 Rust 1.78.0 is out
🛟 June, a “Safe” Systems Language, Emerges
🔐 Regulators are coming for IoT device security
💰️ Microsoft Donates $1 Million to the Rust Foundation 

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News & Article Roundup

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

Embedded Rust News 📰

• An AtomicDevice primitive coming to embedded-hal

Rust News 🗞️ 🦀 

• Microsoft’s $1M Vote of Confidence in Rust’s Future ⭐️ 

• This Development-cycle in Cargo: 1.79

• Rust Project Goals Submission Period

• Rust participates in OSPP 2024

• Automatic checking of cfgs at compile-time

• Announcing Rustup 1.27.1

• Announcing Rust 1.78.0 ⭐️ 

• Announcing Google Summer of Code 2024 selected projects

General Embedded News/Trends 📈 

• Regulators are coming for IoT device security ⭐️ 

• Beta Release of Raspberry Pi Connect ⭐️ 

• Espressif Hits Some Major Milestones with Its Newly-Expanded ESP ZeroCode Development Platform ⭐️ 

• Microchip and Kudelski Bring Power of Trust to Embedded IoT

• Infineon Rises on Recovery Hopes

• Chipmaker NXP forecasts Q2 profit above estimates on industrial demand recovery

• Recent developments in the Zephyr port for RISC-V

• Yocto Project 5.0 “Scarthgap” released with Linux 6.6 and plenty of changes

• Renesas launches integrated code generator support for new 32-bit RISC-V MCU with SEGGER Embedded Studio

• Infineon and ETAS collaborate to optimize security of next-generation AURIX™ microcontrollers with ESCRYPT CycurHSM

• Arduino Cloud is now natively supported on tablets ⭐️ 

• All Zephyr Developer Summit videos are now available on YouTube

Comparisons with other Languages 🔍️ 

• Announcing June, a safe systems language ⭐️ 

• I changed my mind about this language

• Why Rust Isn't Killing C++

• Is Go Used in Production more than Rust ?

Hardware Announcements 🛠️ 

• Pineberry Pi, Now Pineboards, Launches New PCIe Boards and Looks Beyond the Raspberry Pi 5

• Pleora brings GigE Vision software connectivity to wider range of cameras

• Waveshare UGV Rover – A 6-wheel AI robot built around Raspberry Pi 4/5 and ESP32 ⭐️ 

• ESP32 Ethernet, Wi-Fi & Serial Gateway

• NXP’s MCX FRDM Board Hands-On

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Educational Resources

A curation of embedded & Rust educational resources and tutorials

Tutorials & Walkthroughs 📫

• Niels learns Rust 2 — Getting started with AVR Rust

• Rust on ESP32: Connecting MQTT part sending + receiving

• Blinking an LED: Embedded Rust ecosystem explored

Insights, Tools, & Case Studies 📑

• Ferrocene: Qualifying the Rust compiler out in the open

• Unwind considered harmful?

• From C to Rust: Bringing Rust Abstractions to Embedded Linux

• Crafting new Linux schedulers with sched-ext, Rust and Ubuntu

• Unveiling secrets of the ESP32 part 2: reverse engineering RX

• Embedded Systems : ARM Debug Interface and Structure

• Rust makes DNS and time software more secure

• Exploring Remote Hands-on Support for Collaborative Embedded Systems Development

• Exploring Zed, an open-source code editor written in Rust

• Implementing Small Language Models (SLMs) with RAG on Embedded Devices Leading to Cost Reduction, Data Privacy, and Offline Use

• Maximizing Performance Through Sensor Integration in Embedded Systems

• Remote Debugging Rust Applications on Embedded Linux

• Arm Education: In Conversation with Sophie Wilson

General Embedded 📟️ 

• LLM Pipelines: Seamless Integration on Embedded Devices

• Got a spare Pi 1/2/3? Try RISC OS Open 5.30 It is, literally, something else

• How to localize your devices with GNSS, NMEA, and Zephyr

• How to use I2C devices in (Apache) NuttX: Scanning for Devices

• Agricultural IoT System Sends Power Through the Soil

• Raspberry Pi Pico W: Sending Emails using SMTP Server (MicroPython)

• Abstract hardware interfaces in Zephyr

• Remotely Control Raspberry Pi via SSH from External Network

• Automated Testing for Web-based Systems on Embedded Devices

• How to use I2C devices in (Apache) NuttX: Scanning for Devices

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Noteworthy Mentions

Useful resources worth mentioning

Noteworthy Course 🧑‍🏫 

🏫 Introduction to Embedded Machine Learning

Noteworthy Book 📚️ 

📕 Command Line 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 🚨 

• stm32-hal2 v1.8.3

• svd2rust v0.33.2

• portable-atomic-util v0.2.0

• ftdi-embedded-hal v0.22.0

• semihosting v0.1.10

• atsamd-hal v0.17.0

• rp2040-hal v0.10.1

• embedded-hal-bus v0.2.0

Upcoming/New Learning Resources & Training 📚

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

Upcoming Events & Deadlines 🎭

• Oxidize - May 28th - 30th, 2024, Berlin, Germany

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

• Espressif DevCon - CFP Deadline May 3rd, September 3-5, 2024, Online

• RustConf 2024 - CFP Deadline April 25th, September 10-13, 2024, Montreal, Canada

• EuroRust - CFP Deadline June 3rd - October 10th & 11th, 2024 , Vienna, Austria, and Online

• RustLab 2024 - November 9th-11th, 2024, Florence, Italy

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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 🌍️ 

• 🦀 Thesis | Research and Development Embedded Systems, Internship | Software development (C#/C++) in the area of ​​vehicle diagnostics, Internship | Research and Development Embedded Systems, Software developer TCP/IP in Rust- Vector Informatik, Stuttgart, Germany

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

• 🦀 Embedded Linux Software Engineer - Canonical, Global, Hybrid

• 🦀 Doctoral Thesis: Automotive Software Development with Artificial Intelligence - Infineon, Munich, Germany

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

• 🦀 Master thesis: WebAssembly AoT (Ahead of Time translator) for Aurix - Infineon, Munich, Germany

• 🦀 Embedded Linux Software Engineer - ZF, Plzeň, CZ

• 🦀 Rust developer for robotics infrastructure - Sevensense, Zurich, Switzerland

• 🦀 Research Scientist – Applied Security for Industrial Systems - ABB, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany

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

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

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

• 🦀 IoT DevOps Engineer/Full Stack Developer - Liebherr, Ulm, Germany

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

• 🦀 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 🌎️ 

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

• 🦀 Embedded Linux Software Engineer - Canonical, Global, Hybrid

• 🦀 Associate Software Engineer - Edge Protocols - SmartThings, Minneapolis, MN

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

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

• 🦀 Embedded Software Engineer - Umbra, Santa Barbara, CA

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

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