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Issue Highlights

🐧 New OpenWrt release with Rust package support
🍓 Raspberry Pi and Cambridge Launch Ada Computer Science Program
🧑‍💼 SiFive RISC-V Employee Layoffs
💻️ Nvidia to challenge Intel with PC chips
🚗 Foxconn and Nvidia building “AI factories”
👓️ Google and Qualcomm developing RISC-V Wearables

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Embedded Rust News 📰

• Announcing EtherCrab: The 100% Rust EtherCAT controller

• OpenWrt 23.05 Released With Rust Package Support

• Sebastian Urban's Rust Library Makes It Easier to Experiment with a Raspberry Pi's USB Gadget Mode

Rust Community News 🗞️ 🦀 

• Rust Burn Library for Deep Learning

• PowerDNS Starts to Use Rust

• Rust Is Surging Ahead in WebAssembly (For Now)

• Announcing the New Rust Project Directors

• Generators are dead, long live coroutines, generators are back

• Q3 2023 Recap from Rebecca Rumbul

• EuroRust 2023 Reflections: What's a Conference For?

General Embedded News/Trends 📈 

• Vitesco Technologies and Infineon intensify partnership for more efficiency in e-mobility

• Raspberry Pi + Cambridge University = Ada Computer Science

• Bookworm – the new version of Raspberry Pi OS

• SiFive Lays Off Hundreds of RISC-V Developers

• Ubuntu Linux 23.10 'Mantic Minotaur' is here with new features and Raspberry Pi 5 compatibility

• Renesas deepens edge AI deployment with strategic investment in EdgeCortix

• Tim Hanewich's Scout Flight Controller Pushes MicroPython on the Raspberry Pi Pico to the Limit

• Infineon Buys 3db Access to Pursue Wider UWB Potential

• QWERTY Embedded Design Launches a PMOD to Put a Raspberry Pi RP2040 on Your FPGA Board

• Ampere Is Delivering the Biggest Innovation to Eyewear in 50 Years

• Nvidia to make Arm-based PC chips in major new challenge to Intel

• Foxconn and Nvidia are building ‘AI factories’ to accelerate self-driving cars

• Qualcomm and Google to develop RISC-V for wearables

Comparisons with other Languages 🔍️ 

• Why Every Developer Should Try Rust

• AWS Lambda Runtime Performance – Rust, Go, Node and Python

• TensorFlow, Rust, and Go: An Unholy Union for Cross-Platform Inferences

Tutorials & Walkthroughs 📫

• Edge IoT with Rust on ESP: HTTP Server

• Async Rust on ESP32 + Embassy: HTTP Client using Reqwless

• A getting started guide to ESP32 no-std Rust development

• Async Rust on ESP32 + Embassy: HTTP Server using picoserve

Insights, Tools, & Case Studies 📑

• Interrupts is threads

• Rust on Android goes bare metal: 3 key security benefits

• Learn advanced Rust programming with a little help from AI

• Rust on Yocto: A Seamless Integration

• Analyzing Data 180,000x Faster with Rust

• Implementing Practical Byzantine Fault Tolerance - part 3

• Rust vs C on an ATTiny85; an embedded war story

• Why Ferrocene?

• Visualizing memory layout of Rust's data types

General Embedded 📟️ 

• Demystifying Embedded Electronics: Your Gateway to Simplicity 🔥 

• RISC-V interrupts with a timer example

• #0 Modern Embedded Systems Programming: Getting Started

• Programming embedded systems: input-driven state machines

• Migrating embedded systems to the cloud with Azure IoT Hub

• Because You Can: Linux On An Arduino Uno

• Embedded database management tool written in Rust

• Embedded System Design: Demystifying the Core of Smart Devices

• AsyncIO in Arduino: Introduction to Asynchronous Processing Part 1

• Using Generative AI For Code Can Be a Big Risk

• Creating and Exporting Project-Specific Configurations in VS Code

• Creating an Enhanced Development Environment Beyond Conventional IDEs

• Benchmarking Raspberry Pi 5

Rewrite it in Rust - Project Inspiration ✏️ 🦀 

• Budget DIY GPS/GNSS Base Station / Receiver Setup with ESP32

Device and/or Framework Crate Updates 🚨 

• std-embedded-nal v0.2.0

• portable-atomic v1.5.0

• rust-ocpp v0.4.0

• embedded-io v0.6.1

• svd2rust v0.30.2

• embedded-sdmmc v0.6.0

• esp-idf-hal v0.42.1

• esp-idf-svc v0.47.1

• embedded-svc v0.26.1

• edge-executor v0.4.0

• espup v0.7.0

• embassy-net v0.2.0

• embassy-net-driver v0.2.0

• esp-idf-sys v0.33.3

• cmsis-pack v0.6.3

• embassy-time v0.1.5

• embedded-text v0.6.6

• svdtools v0.3.4

• probe-rs v0.21.1

Upcoming/New Learning Resources & Training 📚

Upcoming Events & Deadlines 🎭

• Tiny Tapeout 5 Submission Deadline - November 4th, 2023

• RISC-V Summit - November 7th - 8th, 2023, Santa Clara, CA

• tinyML Summit 2024 Call for Presentations and Posters - November 17th, 2023

• RustLab 2023 - November 19th-21st, 2023, Florence, Italy

• Open Hardware Summit Call for Talks and Proposals - Deadline December 17th, 2023

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

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

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

Noteworthy Hardware 🛠️ 

📟️ PicoCell 4G uses Raspberry Pi RP2040 and supports 4G LTE cellular connectivity

Noteworthy Repo or Crates 📦️ 

📦️ sarah-ek/faer-rs: Linear algebra foundation for the Rust programming language

📦️ mytechnotalent/Reverse-Engineering: A FREE comprehensive reverse engineering tutorial covering x86, x64, 32-bit ARM & 64-bit ARM architectures.

Noteworthy Post/Article/Interview 🖼️

💭 More than you've ever wanted to know about errors in 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 Embedded Software Engineer - Nedap, Netherlands (east)

• 🦀 Rust Engineer - Fusion Engineering, Delft, Netherlands

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

• 🦀 Master Thesis: Design of a sensor fusion network to extend the control of a reliability test system - Infineon, Austria

• 🦀 Working Student: Embedded Software Development - Firmware - Infineon, Germany

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

• 🦀 Linux and Rust Developer - Aira, Stockholm, Sweden

• 🦀 Rust Developer - Aira, Stockholm, Sweden

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

• 🦀 Rust Developer - Intervall, Germany

• 🦀 Embedded Developer (C, Rust) to Clean Motion - The Techno Creatives, Sweden

• 🦀 Research Scientist for Embedded Software and Security - Siemens, Portugal

• 🦀 Software Architect for Embedded Systems - Siemens, Portugal

• 🦀 Embedded Software Developer - Siemens, Portugal

• 🦀 Senior Embedded Software Developer - Siemens, Portugal

• 🦀 Embedded Software Engineer - Gama Space, Paris, France

North America Based Jobs 🌎️ 

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

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

• 🦀 📡 Senior Embedded Software Engineer - Turion Space, Irvine, CA

• 🦀 Jr. Embedded engineer (electronics & programming) - Interstellar Lab, Multiple Locations (America and Europe)

• 🦀 Sr. Embedded Engineer (electronics & programming) - Interstellar Lab, Multiple Locations (America and Europe)

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

• 🦀 Rust Software Engineer - Enfabrica, San Francisco, CA

• 🦀 Systems Engineer (Rust) - Matician, Mountain View, CA

• 🦀 Software Engineer, Embedded System - Fourier, Palo Alto, CA

• 🦀 Kernel Engineer, Embedded Systems, Pixel Core Platform/BSP - Google, CA

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Keep Crafting in Rust, 🦀

- Omar