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Issue Highlights

🦀 Google’s Releases Rust Client Libraries for Google Cloud
🛜 esp-hal 1.0 is Out of Beta
💰️ Qt Attempting to Acquire IAR
📦️ Crates.io Development Updates
🍓 RasPi’s New Mini Camera
📹️ RustyBits Drops a Bluetooth Tutorial Video
📚 Rust Adoption Case Studies

 

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News & Article Roundup

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

Embedded Rust News 📰

• Slint 1.12 Released with WGPU Support, iOS Port, and Figma Variables Integration

• Slint Material Components Tech Preview

• Release 0.29.1: probe-rs

• esp-hal v1.0.0-rc.0 released ⭐️

Rust News 🗞️🦀

• Google Releases Cloud Platform Rust Client Libraries ⭐️

• Google Cloud Client Libraries for Rust

• Crates.io Implements Trusted Publishing Support ⭐️

• crates.io: development update

• Aerospike unveils native Rust client preview, targeting real-time ‘safe’ applications

• uzu: Inference engine for Apple Silicon built with Rust

• Call for Testing: Speeding up Rust compilation with hint-mostly-unused

• gccrs June 2025 monthly report

General Embedded News/Trends 📈

• Early Adopters Invited to Try the Next Raspberry Pi OS, Built Atop Debian "Trixie"

• Ubuntu 25.10 release to mandate RVA23 profile, obsoleting most RISC-V hardware

• IoT to more than double over next decade – as “major demand centre”

• Qt's recommended public cash offer for I.A.R. Systems Group ⭐️

• HighTec’s Latest C/C++ Compiler Achieves ISO 26262 ASIL D Certification for Infineon AURIX

• LightBench Shines a Light on Hidden Threats

Comparisons with other Languages 🔍️

• Scientific Computing Benchmark: Rust vs Zig vs the father C

• Serving a half billion requests per day with Rust and CGI

• Rust case studies ⭐️

• Hacking coroutines into C

• Wave Language Performance Benchmark: Comparison with C and Rust

• TrapC: Memory Safe C Programming with No UB

• Using the modern language (Rust) on an old device is hard

• How Rust’s Debut in the Linux Kernel is Shoring Up System Stability

Hardware 🛠️

• Waveshare Melds the Raspberry Pi Pico and Raspberry Pi Zero Families Into the RP2350-PiZero

• EchoEar: Espressif's Smart AI Development Kit

• Picomputer Gets Wi-Fi Makeover With Raspberry Pi Pico 2 W Upgrade

• Kappa4310Rasp – A Modbus RTU HAT for Raspberry Pi

• Raspberry Pi Camera Module 3 Sensor Assembly ⭐️

• NanoPi R76S dual 2.5GbE SBC

• NXP introduces IW693 Wi-Fi 6E SoC with 2×2 MIMO

• Raspberry Pi 5 "Tower of Power"

• DFRobot FireBeetle 2 ESP32-P4

• NuMicro-Powered NuMaker-UNO-M4

• Maduino Zero Wi-Fi HaLow

• CamThink NeoEyes NE101

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Educational Resources

A curation of embedded & Rust educational resources and tutorials

Tutorials & Walkthroughs 📫

• Big Button - Part 1

• Building the Rust Compiler with GCC

• Building a Bluetooth LE device with embedded Rust ⭐️

• How to Write Rust Code Like a Rustacean

• ESP32/embedded Rust maintenance

• Embedded Rust on the ESP32 : Blinking an LED

• Embedded Rust on the ESP-32 : Hello World

• Embedded Rust on the ESP32 : Interfacing Button with ESP32

Insights, Tools, & Case Studies 📑

• Making Unsafe Rust a Little Safer: Find Memory Errors in Production with GWP-ASan

• tinymcp: Let LLMs control embedded devices via the Model Context Protocol

• Zeroize: The Tiny and Memory-Safe Rust Crate

• Driving The Future: How Rust And Virtual ECUs Are Transforming AUTOSAR Classic Automotive Software

• A dataset for environmental sound recognition in embedded systems for autonomous vehicles

• Rust in Production: KSAT uses Rust for mission-critical satellite ground stations processing gigabytes of space data across 300+ global antennas

• All the reasons why embedded systems need a database and how to go about it

• Suzuki Serial Data Line (SDL) viewer in rust.

• Borrow Checker Part 5 | as Design Partner - Concurrency, Async, and Mastery

• Rust in Automotive: Shifting Left and Shifting into Gear

• Formal Security and Functional Verification of Cryptographic Protocol Implementations in Rust

General Embedded 📟️

• How AI on Microcontrollers Actually Works: The Computation Graph

• Using Raspberry Pi and MCU-Link for Remote Embedded Debugging

• Exploring Zephyr RTOS: A Junior Engineer’s Perspective

• Thread network performance test report

• ESP32 Bus Pirate

• Getting Started: RPi AI Camera (IMX500) + MobileNet v2

• Display Image On OLED With Arduino Mega

• ESP32 CYD with ESP-NOW: Receive and Display Data From Multiple Boards

• Skills useful to learn for robotics engineering

• Train More with Less

• Embedded Medical Devices

• How AI on Microcontrollers Actually Works: Registering Operators

• Journey packet through zephyr network stack

• Enhancing SMBus Protocol Education for Embedded Systems Using Generative AI: A Conceptual Framework with DV-GPT

• Quick Start with RPi AI Camera and Pre-trained AI Models

• ESP32 Plugs In to Real-Time Crypto Prices

• How to deploy CNN models on ESP32

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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 🚨

• embassy-rp v0.6.0

• embassy-nrf v0.5.0

• embassy-usb v0.5.0

• embassy-embedded-hal v0.3.1

• esp-wifi v0.15.0

• esp-hal-embassy v0.9.0

• esp-hal v1.0.0-rc.0

• probe-rs v0.29.1

• stm32-hal2 v2.0.0

• imxrt-hal v0.5.11

Upcoming Events & Deadlines 🎭

• Rust Forge - August 2025, Wellington, New Zealand

• RustConf - September 2-5, 2025, Seattle, USA

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

• NDC Techtown - September 22-25, Kongsberg, Norway

• EuroRust - October 9-10, 2025, Paris, France

• Espressif DevCon 2025 - Call for Speakers Deadline July 31st - November 5-6, 2025

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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 🌍️

• 🦀 Staff Software Engineer - Veecle, Berlin, Germany

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

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

• 🦀 Rust Developer/Promoter - Collabora, Remote

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

North America-Based Jobs 🌎️

• 🦀 (NEW) Embedded Firmware Engineer, Embedded Firmware Developer, and Embedded Rust/C++ Firmware Developer - Chemelex, Edmonton, Canada

• 🦀 Senior Software Engineer, Embedded Systems/Firmware, Project Starline - Google, Mountain View, CA

• 🦀 Principal Embedded Systems Engineer – Avionics / GNC - Orb Aerospace, Lowell, MI

• 🦀 Core Information Embedded Engineer - Caterpillar, Mossville, IL

• 🦀 Rust Embedded Software Engineer 1, 2, 3, & 4 - General Dynamics, MA

• 🦀 Embedded Systems Software Consultant (Rust / RTOS) - Seamgen, Remote

• 🦀 Senior Embedded Engineer (In-Flight Perception), Embedded Software Engineer (Stratospheric Vehicles), Senior/Principal Embedded Software Engineer (Stratospheric Vehicles) - Mach Industries, Huntington Beach, CA

• 🦀 Sr. Embedded Firmware Engineer (Rust and C) - Nanobiosym, Cambridge, MA

• 🦀 Rust Senior Software Engineer, Rust Principal Software Engineer - Raytheon Technologies, El Segundo, CA

• 🦀 Rust Software Engineer - K2Space, Los Angeles, CA

• 🦀 Embedded Software Engineering Manager - Span, San Francisco, CA

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

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

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

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

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

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