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Issue Highlights

🦀 Several Project Updates
💪 ARM Updates Naming Convention
🛰️ Ada Demonstrates Simulating the Mars Rover in Rust
🤖 ROS Applications in Rust
🧑‍💻 Qt’s platform agnostic plans
💫 Google’s Gemini coming to Volvos
📀 esp-hal v1.0.0-beta.1 is out
📟️ STM32 Embedded Rust Course Launches on Udemy

 

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Quote of the Issue

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News & Article Roundup

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

Embedded Rust News 📰

• Blinksy: a Rust no-std, no-alloc LED control library for spatial layouts

• Roto: A Compiled Scripting Language for Rust

• SimpleBLE - Cross-platform Bluetooth library that just works - New Rust API!

• Embedded Rust Development with STM32: Absolute Beginners ⭐️

• esp-hal v1.0.0-beta.1 is out ⭐️

Rust News 🗞️🦀

• Meta Open-Sources Pyrefly, a High-Performance Python Type Checker in Rust 

• The GCC compiler backend can now fully bootstrap the Rust compiler

• Freya v0.3 release (GUI Library for Rust)

• Rust CUDA May 2025 project update 

• Rust Coreutils 0.1 Released With Big Performance Gains - Can Match Or Exceed GNU Speed

• Status report on optional Rust in FreeBSD support

• The Linux 6.15 kernel arrives - and it's big a victory for Rust fans

• April Project Goals Update 

• Demoting i686-pc-windows-gnu to Tier 2

• Redesigning the Initial Bootstrap Sequence

• Announcing five new members of the compiler team ⭐️

General Embedded News/Trends 📈

• Volvo will be the first to install Google’s Gemini in its cars ⭐️

• Qt group reveals ambitious plans to broaden qt into a platform agnostic framework ⭐️

• QNX launches QNX Hypervisor 8.0 to Accelerate Embedded Software Development

• Apache NuttX Vulnerable: Remote Code Execution via Bluetooth Stack Flaw Affects Embedded Systems

• Variscite and Memfault partner for enhanced IoT/embedded device observability and OTA updates

• Alpine Linux 3.22 Released: A Lightweight Powerhouse for Containers & Embedded Systems

• ARM is introducing a new product naming architecture

• Bringing bluetooth channel sounding automotive and beyond

Comparisons with other Languages 🔍️

• Top programming languages to use for your IoT project

• I’m building a programming language called Razen that compiles to Rust

• The online version of the book "Rust for C Programmers" got a dedicated website

• When Rust Rusts the Developer Experience

• Zig: First Impressions

• The Mouse Language, Running on Arduino

• Fork Union: Beyond OpenMP in C++ and Rust?

• Revisiting Loop Recognition in C++ in Rust

• C++ to Rust Phrasebook

Hardware 🛠️

• Sipeed Tang Console – A GOWIN GW5AST/GW5AT board for FPGA development and retro gaming

• Radxa ROCK 4D SBC – A Raspberry Pi lookalike powered by Rockchip RK3576 SoC

• Arduino launches Nano Connector Carrier and seven Modulino expansion nodes

• DFRobot Edge101 ESP32 industrial IoT controller offers isolated RS485 and CAN Bus interfaces

• PicoEMP – A Raspberry Pi Pico-based open-source electromagnetic fault injector designed for EMFI testing and research

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Educational Resources

A curation of embedded & Rust educational resources and tutorials

Tutorials & Walkthroughs 📫

• Build Your Own Indoor Air Quality Monitor with Micro:bit and Rust

• Type-level Bounded Recursion in Rust

• Video #2: Cross compiling a Rust project for ARM Cortex M target

• Video #1: Bare-metal Embedded Rust Programming with STM32 | Tool chain installation(Host)

• How to deal with Rust dependencies

• Let's Build a (Mini)Shell in Rust - A tutorial covering command execution, piping, and history in ~100 lines

• Stop using MutexBool to cancel tasks (Do This Instead)

Insights, Tools, & Case Studies 📑

• Sguaba: hard-to-misuse rigid body transforms without worrying about linear algebra

• Inertial Measurement Units (IMU): Understanding Accelerometers, Gyroscopes, and Sensor Fusion

• A first look at ROS 2 applications written in asynchronous Rust ⭐️

• Building a Virtual Mars Rover with SPARK and Rust ⭐️

• Using Rust for Autonomous Network Self-Healing in Telecommunications

• Opinionated starter template for Rust macro projects

• Romoulade: Yet another Game Boy Emulator in Rust

• The Waker Allocation Problem

• A Love Letter to Embedded Systems by V. Hunter Adams

• Understanding Async Socket Handling in Rust: From TCP Request to Waker Wake-up

• Lifetimes in Rust aren't that hard

• This Tiny Rust Tweak Makes Searching a Slice 9x Faster

• How to speed up the Rust compiler in May 2025

• foreign, a library of traits to convert Rust types to and from their C representations

• A Tale of Testability and Sending Non-Send Types in Rust

• RustTensor: Learn Tensor Computation and ML from Scratch in Rust

General Embedded 📟️

• Renode integration with MPACT-Cheriot for secure IoT systems simulation

• Bringing Secure Boot to Your IoT Projects with Infineon's Trust-M

• UML for Embedded Systems: Modeling the Invisible

• Is Semantic SLAM Ready for Embedded Systems ? A Comparative Survey

• Compiling OCaml to the TI-84 CE Calculator

• Integration of TinyML and LargeML: A Survey of 6G and Beyond

• Embedding ML training on MCU

• Implementation of artificial intelligence on arduino

• 5 AI Technologies Embedded Developers Should Master

• Modernizing Embedded Systems: Overhaul Your Build System

• ACE: Confidential Computing for Embedded RISC-V Systems

• Provable Execution in Real-Time Embedded Systems

• The next big thing in tech: edge AI

• Generative AI at the Edge: Challenges and Opportunities

• Novel Benchmark Finds That Efficiency Wins Out Over Raw Power for On-Device TinyML

• A Language-Agnostic CI/CD Pipeline flow

• Linux kernel slides

• Ever wondered how billions usb devices just work linux

• Navigating global market access: how Raspberry Pi supports OEMs

• What Use Is An Original Raspberry Pi?

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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 🚨

• esp-hal-embassy v0.8.1

• esp-wifi v0.14.1

• zerocopy v0.8.25

• esp-hal v1.0.0-beta.1

• edge-net v0.11.0

• stm32 v0.16.0 device support crates

• svdtools v0.5.0

Upcoming Events & Deadlines 🎭

• Rust Summit - 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 🌍️

• 🦀 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 🌎️

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

• 🦀 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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