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Issue Highlights

🔐 A Security Vulnerability affecting async-tar
💰️ RustNL Starts a Maintainers Fund
🧠 SensiML Starts Open-Source Initiative for TinyML
🔮 Jon Gjengset Talks Rust & Future of Coding
👾 Green Hills Partners with Infineon on EdgeAI

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News & Article Roundup

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

Embedded Rust News 📰

• Copper now also runs on baremetal microcontrollers

Rust News 🗞️🦀

• Rust Maintainers Fund Announced ⭐️

• Announcing the New Rust Project Directors

• docs.rs: changed default targets

• Program management update — September 2025

• Infrastructure Team 2025 Q3 Recap and Q4 Plan

• Renaming the default branch of rust-lang/rust

• What we learned with Clippy's feature freeze

• Motor OS is now a Tier-3 target in Rust

• New Code Merged For Linux 6.18 To Address Linus Torvalds' Rust Formatting Critique

• Linux 6.18 LTS Kernel Released: A Deep Dive into New Rust Code, Security, and Hardware Support

• TARmageddon Strikes: High Profile Security Vulnerability In Popular Rust Library ⭐️

• Git considers SHA-256, Rust, LLMs, and more

• Upcoming Rust language features for kernel development

General Embedded News/Trends 📈

• SEGGER expands partnership to make SystemView free for Silicon Labs customers

• Software update bricks some Jeep 4xe hybrids over the weekend

• Seeed Studio XIAO Series Now Fully Supported by MicroBlocks

• Raspberry Pi OS, LMDE, Peppermint OS join the Debian 13 club

• Infineon doubles down on SDV with Marvell Ethernet assets

• Open-source initiative boosts TinyML apps ⭐️

• Renesas is exploring a sale of its timing unit

• Arduino has a new job selling chips for its new owner. Let's not pretend otherwise

• Green Hills Software and Infineon Enable Edge AI Development PSOC Platform ⭐️

• The Dragon Hatchling Learns to Fly: Inside AI’s Next Learning Revolution

• Ashling and Embecosm Extend PyTorch AI to RISC-V Embedded Devices

• What Qualcomm's Arduino deal means for your Raspberry Pi

Comparisons with Other Languages 🔍️

• Why Odin Deserves a Place Beside C, Zig, and Rust in Your Toolbox

• The Rust Rewrites Nobody Asked For

• Rust for C Programmers: What I Wish I Knew from Day One

• Python and Rust interoperability: A walkthrough for building a high performance MCP server

• Choosing rust beyond the technical decision

Hardware 🛠️

• RP2350 Tiny and Tiny XL boards

• LILYGO T-2CAN

• $4 Shrike-lite FPGA board

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Educational Resources

A curation of embedded & Rust educational resources and tutorials

Tutorials & Walkthroughs 📫

• My take on an embedded "Hello World!" example

• Building Embedded TUIs with Rust & Ratatui

• Creating an new Embedded Rust Projects for NXP LPC55S69

• Let's write a macro in Rust

• Getting Started with Rust on NXP LPC55S69-EVK

• Getting Started with Rust Programming on Raspberry Pi

• How to Get Error Locations with ? in Rust Tests

• Create Your Own AI Voice Agent Using ESP32 and Rust

Insights, Tools, & Case Studies 📑

• How to Get a Job in Edge AI: Essential Skills for 2025

• Florian gilcher on rust for safety critical systems

• Jon Gjengset on Rust & Future of Coding ⭐️

• Goiaba: An experimental Go compiler, written in Rust

• Built a Rust-based DAQ system as a side project

• Why every Rust crate feels like a research paper on abstraction

• Building AI systems made me appreciate Rust more than I ever expected

• The state of the Rust dependency ecosystem

• Rust in Production: Scythe's Autonomous Mowers and Grass-Roots Robotics in Rust

• Denial of Fuzzing: Rust in the Windows kernel

• TIL about Rune: embedded Rust-like and Rust-based language

• Rust Adventure Workshop Development

• Garbage Collection for Rust: The Finalizer Frontier

• Mix Languages in Rust Codebase with Run-Kit

• Move, Destruct, Forget, and Rust

• Why Rust?

• Why the Automotive Industry Needs Rust

• Building a local voice AI agent on ESP32 with Rust — introducing EchoKit

General Embedded 📟️

• Floating-Point Units on Espressif SoCs: Why (and when) they matter

• ESP32 with FreeRTOS: Getting Started with Semaphores (Arduino IDE)

• Qualcomm’s Acquisition of Arduino Creates a New Vibe

• Xilinx/AMD Vivado SoC FPGA Development and Debug Workflow

• Concurrency vs. Parallelism: What’s the Difference and Why Should You Care?

• From Setup to Blinky: Your First Zephyr Project on STM32

• The new Arduino Uno Q gets a Zephyr brain

• Towards smart and adaptive agents for active sensing on edge devices

• Three Blind (Zephyr) Mice

• Transforming Remote Industries with StellarIoT and Insights from Renesas

• Arduino AI Assistant vs. ChatGPT: Which one should you use for your projects?

• RockNet: Distributed Learning on Ultra-Low-Power Devices

• Deploying ML on Arduino: From Blink to Think

• Harvard CS249 Introduction to Machine Learning Systems Book

• 3 AI Tricks for Embedded Software Architects

• How to Make Software for Hardware Engineering

• Embedded System Design vs Traditional Software Design

• A Watchdog Timer is Needed in Every Embedded Device

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Noteworthy Mentions

Useful resources worth mentioning

Noteworthy Course 🧑‍🏫

🏫 Harvard CS249 Introduction to Machine Learning Systems

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 🚨

• stm32-hal2 v2.1.8

• svd2rust v0.37.1

• esp-hal-embassy v0.9.1

• esp-wifi v0.15.1

• esp-rtos v0.1.1

• esp-radio v0.16.0

• esp-hal v0.23.1

• espflash v4.2.0

• microbit-v2 v0.16.0

• microbit v0.16.0

• nrf-hal-common v0.19.0

Upcoming Events & Deadlines 🎭

• Espressif DevCon 2025 - November 5-6, 2025

• TokioConf 2026 - April 20th, 2026 - CFP Open, Deadline: December 8th, 2025 - Portland, Oregon, USA

• Rust Nation UK - February 18th & 19th, 2026 - London, UK

• Rust In Paris - March, 2026 (Projected) - Paris, France

• RustMeet - March, 2026 (Projected) - Gliwice, Poland

• Rustikon - 19 & 20 March, 2026 - Warsaw, Poland

• Rust Asia - March, 2026 (Projected) - Hong Kong

• RustWeek - May 18-23, 2026 - Utrecht, Netherlands

• RustForge - August, 2026 (Projected) - Wellington, New Zealand

• RustConf - September 8-11, 2026 - Montreal, Canada

• Oxidize - September 14-16, 2026 - Berlin, Germany

• EuroRust - October 14-17, 2026 - Barcelona, Spain

• RustLab - November, 2026 (Projected) - Florence, Italy

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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 🌍️

• 🦀 Internship: Firmware Rust Developer - NXP, Gratkorn, Austria

• 🦀 Middle/Senior Rust Developer with C experience (IoT) - Sigma Software, Mutliple Locations, Europe

• 🦀 Software Development Engineer - Embedded Development - Amazon, London, Cambridge, UK

• 🦀 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 Software Engineer, Senior Software Engineer, Staff Software Engineer, OTA, and Senior Software Engineer, OTA - Rivian/VW, Palo Alto, CA and Vancouver, Canada

• 🦀 Spacecraft Embedded Software Engineer (Rust) & Senior Spacecraft Embedded Software Engineer (Rust) - Spire, Multiple Locations, CA & USA

• 🦀 Rust Software Developer - Ford, Hybrid, Palo Alto, CA

• 🦀 Senior Embedded Developer (Hardware in the Loop) - Geotab, Oakville, ON

• 🦀 Software Engineer II - Embedded Cybersecurity - Collins Aerospace, Cedar Rapids, IA

• 🦀 Staff Software Engineer - OTA - Rivian-VW - Palo Alto, CA, Vancouver, Toronto, Canada

• 🦀 Software Engineer, Platform - Impulse, San Fransisco, CA

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

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

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

• 🦀 Firmware Engineer - Mach Industries, Huntington Beach, CA

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

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

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

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

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