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Issue Highlights

💻️ ArielOS is a new embassy-based OS
🔬 Rust penetrating the bioinformatics space
📟️ ESP32-C5 Devkit Available to Order
🖥️ ESP32-P4 Makes Several Appearances
🚗 Ford shuts down SDV project
🦺 Microchip launches AVR MCU for Functional Safety
 

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News & Article Roundup

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

Embedded Rust News 📰

• Rust in QEMU Update

• Rust: The Pace Quickens

• no_std Ratatui - Are We Embedded Yet? #1

• Ariel OS v0.2.0 - now building on stable Rust! ⭐️

Rust News 🗞️🦀

• Ardan Labs Launches Go and Rust Certification Exams

• Rust BEVY Game Engine Version 0.16 Released

• Elon Musk now goes by ‘Gorklon Rust’ on X: Here's what it could mean

• microBioRust, a microbial bioinformatics crate ⭐️

• Memory-safe sudo to become the default in Ubuntu

• An Interactive Debugger for Rust Trait Errors

• Announcing rustup 1.28.2

• Rust Foundation Associate Member Announcement

General Embedded News/Trends 📈

• Hugging Face Launches Open-Source SO-101 Robot Arm for AI Builders

• Raspberry Pi slices Compute Module 4 prices

• Espressif's Dual-Band ESP32-C5 Finally Lands ⭐️

• Raspberry Pi’s fancy new soldering tech cuts product returns in half

• Arduino makes TIME’s 2025 World’s Top EdTech Companies

• Avocado OS: Open-source Linux platform for embedded systems

• NXP Semiconductors Reports First Quarter 2025 Results, Announces Management Transition

• Neural Networks That Design Neural Networks

• Renesas and Canonical to Drive Innovation in Scalable Edge Computing with RZ MPUs

• Critical FastCGI Library Flaw Exposes Embedded Devices to Code Execution

• wolfSSL arrives to NXP’s Application Code Hub

• Expanded STM32WL3x line tailored for metering, IoT sensors, and modem applications

• Edge Impulse Introducing the New Developer Plan ⭐️

• Edge Impulse announces Discord server

• Ford kills project to develop Tesla-like electronic brain ⭐️

• A new Raspberry Pi OS release

• Microchip launches sub-$1, dual-core AVR microcontroller for functional safety applications ⭐️

• Nordic Semi Releases nRF Connect SDK 3.0.0

• Waymo and Toyota outline partnership to advance autonomous driving deployment

• PyTorch Arm native builds now available for Windows

• ST's Strategic Move in Edge AI: Acquisition of Deeplite

Comparisons with other Languages 🔍️

• Code Wars: Rust vs. C in the Battle for Billion-Device Safety

• Rust in Production: Svix rewrote their webhook platform from Python to Rust for 40x fewer service instances

• Rust for python developers why you should take a look at the rust programming language

• Code Wars: Rust vs. C in the Battle for Billion-Device Safety

• Migrating away from Rust | Hacker News

• Matt Godbolt sold me on Rust (by showing me C++)

Hardware 🛠️

• Zalmotek RA6M1, RA8M1, and RZ/A3U SoMs follow Adafruit Feather form factor

• Walnut Pi 2B

• Camera-Like ESP32-P4-EYE Dev Board ⭐️

• NUCLEO-WBA65RI

• EXOCAPTER Is an Espressif ESP32-Powered Wearable for Wi-Fi Security

• KSTR-IMX93 single board computer

• 7-inch ESP32-P4 wireless touchscreen display supports GUITION Designer for LVGL ⭐️

• The Interrupt Is a Grown-Up Flipper Zero, Powered by a Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W

• Compulab IOT-LINK – An ultra-compact NXP i.MX 9352 IoT gateway with WiFi 6, Bluetooth 5.4, 4G LTE Cat 1-bis, and GbE connectivity

• Tab5: 5" Smart Terminal with ESP32-P4 ⭐️

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Educational Resources

A curation of embedded & Rust educational resources and tutorials

Tutorials & Walkthroughs 📫

• Simplifying Rust Error Handling with anyhow

• Rust Error Handling Compared: anyhow vs thiserror vs snafu

• Rust × Burn Adventure — Part 3: Training Our First Model & Drawing Lines

• Why I Fell in Love with Rust Procedural Macros

• Rust is not so complicated after all....

• Shared context for Rust procedural macros

• Understanding Memory Management, Part 5: Fighting with Rust

Insights, Tools, & Case Studies 📑

• pagrs: Window Manager for Embedded Displays in Rust

• RustAssistant: Using LLMs to Fix Compilation Errors in Rust Code

• ParvaOS is an Operating System created completely in Rust 🦀

• Rust2ada: Converts Rust code to formally verifiable Ada, including itself

• Lesson Learned: How we tackled the pain of reading historical data from a growing Replicated Log in Rust (and why Rust was key)

• Don't Make These Mistakes When Writing Rust

• From Rust to C and Back Again

• AI, open source, and the future of embedded development

• What Would Rust Be Without Cargo? A Beautiful Disaster

• Ty: an extremely fast Python type checker and language server, written in Rust.

• RusTOS - Small RTOS in Rust

• How does Heap Allocation Work in Rust?

• Does using Rust really make your software safer?

General Embedded 📟️

• Zero-G Laboratory floating platform

• 4 Things to Consider When Adopting WebAssembly for Embedded Systems

• How to make lvgl9.x C/C++ applications on a dual core RP2040

• Zephyr RTOS: 5 reasons why it will dominate the embedded world transform industry

• Empowering voice assistants with TinyML for user-centric innovations and real-world applications

• Sustainable Embedded Systems: Engineering for Energy Efficiency & Longevity in IoT Era

• Using a Raspberry Pi as a Bootable Drive with Pantacor

• Pathways to Cybersecurity Best Practices in Open Source: Insights from the Zephyr Project

• Hardware/Software Co-Design of RISC-V Extensions for Accelerating Sparse DNNs on FPGAs

• ESP32 Link over 36,000 KM

• How to Create an UI Application for the ESP32-P4 ⭐️

• The CVE Program status: what embedded developers should know

• Learning Bare Metal STM32

• Develop your next RISC-V-based spacecraft with a digital twin in Renode

• 43 Edge AI use cases for 9 industries

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Noteworthy Mentions

Useful resources worth mentioning

Noteworthy Course 🧑‍🏫

🏫 Rust for System Programmers

Noteworthy Book 📚️

📕 Async 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 🚨

• embedded-devices v0.9.13

• atsamd-hal v0.21.3

• embassy-net v0.7.0

• renode-run v0.3.0

• embedded-test v0.6.1

Upcoming Events & Deadlines 🎭

• Embedded Online Conference - May 12-16, 2025, Online

• RustWeek by RustNL - May 13-17, 2025, Utrect, The Netherlands

• Open Hardware Summit - 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, Seattle, USA

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

• NDC Techtown - Call for Papers Open - September 22-25, Kongsberg, Norway

• 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 Software Engineer & Staff Software Engineer - Veecle, Berlin, Germany

• 🦀 Embedded Systems Engineering Intern - Gama, Paris, France

• 🦀 Firmware Engineer - IoT Biodiversity Sensors - Hula, Munich, Germany

• 🦀 Embedded Rust (Medical) - Freelance, Munich, Germany

• 🦀 Rust Developer (Junior to Senior) - wallPen, Wissen, Germany

• 🦀 Rust Developer/Promoter - Collabora, Remote

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

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

North America-Based Jobs 🌎️

• 🦀 (New) Embedded Software Engineer (Bare Metal), Intelligence Systems - Anduril, Reston, VA

• 🦀 (New) Embedded Software Engineer - Rust - Viasat, Carlsbad, CA & Marlborough. MA

• 🦀 Staff Engineer, Systems Embedded Design Engineering - Analog Devices, Boston, MA

• 🦀 QNX Senior Systems Software Developer (Rust Developer) - QNX, Ottawa, Ontario

• 🦀 Rust Software Engineer, Vehicle Simulation - Tesla, Palo Alto, CA

• 🦀 Open Source Robotics Engineer - rerun.io, Remote

• 🦀 Sr. Embedded Software Engineer, Customer Hardware (Starlink) - SpaceX, Bastrop, TX

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

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

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

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