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Issue Highlights

🪲 The probe-rs project needs your feedback
🤖 Rust Coder introduces AI-assisted Rust learning
💻️ Tactility is a new ESP32 OS
🔄 A new system to auto-convert C to Rust
🦀 Rust 1.84.3 is out
📁 The Rust Foundation annual report is out
📦️ Several popular embedded crate updates
❓️ The rise of AI seems to spark more Rust interest
🛠️ NXP Expands the FRDM Board lineup
📚️ Coursera offers new year discounts on Plus subscriptions
 

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News & Article Roundup

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

Embedded Rust News 📰

• probe-rs needs your feedback (5-min survey)

• What's new in Pictorus - Q1 2025

Rust News 🗞️🦀

• Announcing Rust 1.84.0

• Announcing Rust Global 2025: London

• Mainmatter announces several public Rust workshops ⭐️

• This Month in Our Test Infra: December 2024

• The 2024 Rust Foundation Annual Report ⭐️

• Interest in traditional programming languages is declining: Some developers are shunning Java, Python, and C++ in favor of Rust – and the rise of AI could be the cause ⭐️

General Embedded News/Trends 📈

• Tactility; The ESP32 Gets Another OS ⭐️

• Honda and Renesas Sign Agreement to Develop High-Performance SoC for Software-Defined Vehicles ⭐️

• Chipmaker NXP to buy Austria's TTTech Auto

• ESP-IDF Release v5.4

• New System Auto-Converts C To Memory-Safe Rust, But There's a Catch ⭐️

• Cognizant and Siemens Collaborate on New Solution Accelerator for Software-Defined Vehicles

• Imagination exits the RISC-V CPU market

• Unveiling Android 14 on the Toradex Verdin AM62: A New Era for Embedded Systems

• QNX Doubles Down on Developer Support to Fuel Embedded Software Innovation Everywhere

• TI Unveils New Edge AI-Enabled Radar Sensor and Automotive Audio Processors

• NXP Unveils Its Lowest-Power MCX Microcontrollers Yet, the MCX L14x and MCX L25x

• SYSGO introduces TPM support in embedded systems

• FRDM to Innovate: Expanding the FRDM Ecosystem with i.MX Applications Processors

Comparisons with other Languages 🔍️

• Code Browser for C, C++, Rust & Dart by KDAB

• Rewrite it in Rust: A Computational Physics Case Study

• Great things about Rust that aren't just performance

• Why is C the safest language?

Hardware 🛠️

• Morse Micro Unveils Its Next-Generation Wi-Fi HaLow SoC

• Raspberry Pi 5 with 16GB RAM launched for $120

• PiSugar3 is a low-cost Raspberry Pi UPS module with RTC, hardware battery protection, and power management features

• Arduino Portenta Proto Kit ME aims to ease prototyping for professionals

• Introducing the IoT Node for LoRaWAN

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Educational Resources

A curation of embedded & Rust educational resources and tutorials

Tutorials & Walkthroughs 📫

• Rusty Christmas Part 3: It’s About Time

• Creating an embedded device driver in Rust

• Practical Rust for transitioning engineers

• Running Rust on STM32 Microcontrollers: A Practical Guide for Embedded Enthusiasts

Insights, Tools, & Case Studies 📑

• Coursera offers 50% discount on Plus subscriptions (Rest of World) ⭐️

• Coursera offers 65% discount on Plus subscriptions (APAC & EMEA) ⭐️

• Coursera offers 75% discount on Plus subscriptions (India) ⭐️

• RustCoder: AI-assisted Rust learning ⭐️

• Tactility...One Year Later ⭐️

• Static search trees: 40x faster than binary search

• NuttX vs Rust Embedded HAL

• LLM Bot that reviews Pull Requests for Apache NuttX RTOS

• Understanding Interrupts and Callbacks in Embedded Systems

• Top Trends in Embedded Systems for 2025

• SSH port forwarding from within Rust code

• AI at the edge: It’s just getting started

General Embedded 📟️

• Small language models: 10 Breakthrough Technologies 2025

• Resources from my talk "Hacking the RP2350" at 38C3

• Export data from Arduino Cloud to AWS S3

• VPR: Arm and RISC-V Inter-Processor Communication

• Beyond BLE: Cracking Open the Black-Box of RF Microcontrollers

• Authenticate Embedded Systems in a Counterfeit-Prone Market

• AI-ANNE: (A) (N)eural (N)et for (E)xploration: Transferring Deep Learning Models onto Microcontrollers and Embedded Systems

• Framework Design for the Dynamic Reconfiguration of IoT-Enabled Embedded Systems and “On-the-Fly” Code Execution

• Contrasting Embedded Software Development for the Space Shuttle and the Orion MPCV

• WebAssembly as an ecosystem for programming languages

• Using Edge Machine Learning to save power and development time

• TinyML: A Game-Changer in Edge AI and Use Cases for On-device AI

• Yocto Project Minimal Build

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Noteworthy Mentions

Useful resources worth mentioning

Noteworthy Course 🧑‍🏫

🏫 KDAB 2025 Rust Scheduled Training Courses

Noteworthy Book 📚️

📕 Async Rust

Noteworthy Newsletter 📰

📰 Techpresso - Keep up with AI & Tech in 5 mins

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Updates, Events, & Announcements

Updates & announcements from the community

Notable Device and/or Framework Crate Updates 🚨

• defmt v0.3.10

• embassy-sync v0.6.2

• esp-idf-svc v0.51.0

• edge-net v0.10.0

• edge-nal-embassy v0.5.0

• esp-idf-hal v0.45.2

• esp-hal v0.23.1

• esp-wifi v0.12.0

• esp-alloc v0.6.0

• esp-hal-embassy v0.6.0

• atsamd-hal v0.21.0

• embassy-stm32 v0.2.0

• esp-idf-sys v0.36.1

• embassy-nrf v0.3.1

• py32-hal v0.2.1

• semihosting v0.1.18

• svdtools v0.4.0

• embassy-rp v0.3.0

• embassy-net v0.6.0

• embassy-embedded-hal v0.3.0

Upcoming Events & Deadlines 🎭

• Rust Nation UK 2025 - February 19 & 20, 2025, London, UK

• Workshop: Rust-Python Interoperability - February 27 & 28, 2025, Online

• Rust in Paris  - March 14, 2025, Paris, France

• Rustikon - March 26, 2025, Warsaw, Poland

• RUSTAsia - Call For Proposals Open - Deadline December 31, 2024 - March 28, 2025, Hong Kong + Online

• Rust Konf Türkiye - Call For Proposals Open - Deadline January 1, 2025 - April 20, 2025, Istanbul, Turkey

• RustWeek by RustNL - Call For Proposals Open - Deadline January 19, 2025 - May 13-17, 2025, Utrect, The Netherlands

• Open Hardware Summit - Call For Proposals Open - Deadline December 22, 2024 - 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, Location TBD

• Oxidize - September 16-18, 2025, Berlin, Germany

• 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) Senior Staff/Principal Embedded Software Engineer, Orb - World, Munich

• 🦀 (NEW) Embedded Linux Developer - Distran, Zurich

• 🦀 Rust Developer/Promoter - Collabora, Remote

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

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

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

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

North America Based Jobs 🌎️

• 🦀 (NEW) Senior Staff/Principal Embedded Software Engineer, Orb - World, San Francisco

• 🦀 (NEW) Senior Embedded Software Engineer, Project Kuiper Terrestrial Applications - Amazon, Redmond, WA

• 🦀 (NEW) Rust embedded Software Engineer - General Dynamics, Dedham, MA

• 🦀 (NEW) Sr. Embedded Software Engineer, Energy Products - Tesla, Palo Alto, SF

• 🦀 Flight Software in Rust - NASA, USA ⭐️

• 🦀 Sr Embedded Systems Engineer (Gateway Experience) - Lynq, Boulder, CO

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

• 🦀 Embedded Software Engineer, Rust - Anduril, Costa Mesa, CA

• 🦀 Rust Software Engineer - K2 Space, Los Angeles, CA

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

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

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

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