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Issue Highlights

🦀 Rust-based BlueOS Unveiled by vivo
🪁 Zephyr 4.2 Released
💻️ The Electron E1 Promises 100x Computing Efficiency
🍓 RasPi Updates RP2350
💰️ STMicro Acquiring Part of NXP
 

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News & Article Roundup

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

Embedded Rust News 📰

• HighTec and Elektrobit bundle up for Rust and AUTOSAR Classic with Infineon’s Drive Core

• Opportunity to Create an Embedded Rust Course

• vivo Unveils BlueOS: A Lightweight, Open-Source OS Kernel Built with Rust ⭐️

Rust News 🗞️🦀

• Introducing OSS Rebuild: Open Source, Rebuilt to Last

• Red Hat Has Been Rewriting Bash-Based Greenboot In Rust

• Linux 6.16 Brings Faster File Systems, Improved Confidential Memory Support, and More Rust Support

• Fedora 43 Set to Package Hare Language for Systems Programming

• July 2025 Project Director Update

• Sunsetting the rustwasm GitHub org

• Microsoft Champions Rust for Safer Windows Drivers, Ships First Implementations in New Surface PCs

General Embedded News/Trends 📈

• Zephyr RTOS 4.2 Now Available: Introduces Renesas RX Support, USB Video Class, and More ⭐️

• Simplifying Edge intelligence: Open-source AutoML for embedded devices now generally available

• Making a Split Decision

• US tariff terrors prompt Nokia profit drop, TI inventory binge

• Startup Claims up to 100x Better Embedded Computing Efficiency ⭐️

• STmicro Set to Buy NXP’s Sensor Business ⭐️

• VS Code gets AutoML Embedded plugin for automated model tuning, deployment, and benchmarking

• RP2350 A4 Stepping from Raspberry Pi: Enhanced Security, Flash Variants

• Raspberry Pi RP2350 A4 update fixes old bugs and dares you to break it again ⭐️

• Renesas Introduces 64-bit RZ/G3E MPU for High-Performance HMI Systems Requiring AI Acceleration and Edge Computing

Comparisons with other Languages 🔍️

• Fortifying Ubuntu’s Root with sudo‑rs: How Rust Reinforces Privilege Escalation

• Why combine C++ and Rust in your projects?

• Rust, Python, and TypeScript: the new trifecta

Hardware 🛠️

• Best Edge AI Boards: Summer 2025 Edition

• ESP32-S3 USB Dongle for Penetration Testing and Security Research

• L76K GPS Raspberry Pi HAT

• BME690 8x shuttle board features eight identical 4-in-1 gas and air quality sensors

• DreamHAT+ 60 GHz mmWave Radar HAT+ brings high-precision motion sensing to Raspberry Pi 4/5

• Arduino Nano R4 board launched with Renesas RA4M1 microcontroller

• A Plug-and-Play Classroom Built on ESP32-S3

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Educational Resources

A curation of embedded & Rust educational resources and tutorials

Tutorials & Walkthroughs 📫

• Rust on the RP2040, a brief setup guide and background for the basics

• Rust Embedded Drivers (RED) - Open Source Book

• Embedded Rust on the ESP32 : Sensor Integration

• 100 Exercises to Learn Rust: RustRover Edition

Insights, Tools, & Case Studies 📑

• Ditching Visual Studio: How I Built Rust on Windows the Open-Source Way

• What Features Should Rust Have? Part II

• Reflecting on 7+ Years of Crafting CLI Tools in Rust

• Rust as a Autosar component, for TC4x automotive memory security

• Embive: A Secure Code Sandbox for Tiny Devices

• What Features Should Rust Include? Part I: Not Inheritance.

• Here's How You Can Use AI to Teach You Rust - 15 Projects To Impress MAANG Recruiters

• Accelerating Rust Adoption for Maintaining Safety and Secutiry of External Code

• Staying Current with Embedded Systems Tools, Languages, and Frameworks Without Getting Overwhelmed

• Using Option Effectively: Avoiding Null the Rust Way

• Safer Drivers, Stronger Devices: advancing Windows Driver development in Rust

• Rust in Production Podcast Season 4 Finale - Foundational Software

• timsaya/snake-game: A snake game written using rust slint

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

• Enums and Pattern Matching in Rust: A Deep Dive into Type Safety and Control Flow

General Embedded 📟️

• ARM Webinar Series: Accelerate Embedded Development with Keil Studio

• Polymorph: Energy-Efficient Multi-Label Classification for Video Streams on Embedded Devices

• Enabling ESP32 Secure Boot V2 (SBV2)

• Embedded Systems Roadmap: Bridging the Gap

• Pre-main rituals: How Zephyr prepares Cortex-M CPUs

• Pre-main rituals: Zephyr Cortex-M startup file compiler and linker tricks

• Pre-main rituals: Spinning-off main

• Computer Vision for Real-Time Monkeypox Diagnosis on Embedded Systems

• An Experimental Study of Split-Learning TinyML on Ultra-Low-Power Edge/IoT Nodes

• Elements of System Design

• Exploiting Machine Learning for Predictive Maintenance in Industrial Embedded Systems

• Touch Designer Wireless Controller With XIAO ESP32

• Empowering Embedded AI with Edge Impulse and the Nordic nRF54L15 DK

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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 🚨

• device-driver v1.0.7

• stm32-hal2 v2.1.0

• postcard v1.1.3

• burn v0.18.0

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 - 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 🌎️

• 🦀 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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