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Issue Highlights

⬆️ Embedded Rust Ecosystem Overview Sheet Updated
📢 RustConf 2026 CFP is Open
🏟️ RustInParis 2026 CFP is Open
🧠 Ariel-ML is a Machine Learning Toolkit for Rust Embedded
🐧 Rust Becomes Mainstream in the Linux Kernel
🦀 Rust 1.92.0 is out
🐍 MicroPython Adds Support for STMs and ESPs
📻️ Airgapped Radio Receivers
🏡 Embedded Rust Ecosystem Overview Updated

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News & Article Roundup

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

Embedded Rust News 📰

• Ariel-ML: Computing Parallelization with Embedded Rust for Neural Networks on Heterogeneous Multi-core Microcontrollers ⭐️

• New version of Embedded Rust Ecosystem Overview Released ⭐️

Rust News 🗞️🦀

• Linux Kernel Rust Code Sees Its First CVE Vulnerability

• Proxmox Unveils Datacenter Manager 1.0: Open-Source VMware Rival

• Updating Rust's Linux musl targets to 1.2.5

• Project goals update — November 2025

• Making it easier to sponsor Rust contributors

• Leadership Council update — December 2025

• Please submit 2026 Project goal proposals

• The end of the kernel Rust experiment ⭐️

• 01flip: Multi-Platform Ransomware Written in Rust

• Researchers Find Malicious VS Code, Go, npm, and Rust Packages Stealing Developer Data

• Rust RFC Proposes a Security Tab on crates.io for RustSec Advisories

• Announcing Rust 1.92.0 ⭐️

• Rust’s wasi targets are changing, here’s why

General Embedded News/Trends 📈

• Unparalleled Performance: Bring Your C++ Logic to the Edge

• Talking to the Airgap: Exploiting Radio-Less Embedded Devices as Radio Receivers ⭐️

• Raspberry Pi Revises the Compute Module 5 IO Board, IO Case Designs for Better Cooling

• Renesas Fast-Tracks SDV Innovation with R-Car Gen 5 SoC-Based End-to-End Multi-Domain Solution Platform

• AMD EPYC Embedded 2005 Series Zen 5 processors

• Raspberry Pi Details Custom Image Support in Imager 2.0, Fixes a Nasty Storage Corruption Bug

• Renesas Releases Dual-Band Wi-Fi 6 and Bluetooth LE MCUs on Cortex-M33 Architecture

• Introducing Private AI Agents Platform

• MicroPython v1.27 adds support for ESP32-C5, ESP32-P4, and STM32U5 microcontrollers ⭐️

Comparisons with Other Languages 🔍️

• Eventual Rust in CPython

• How to use Rust in ClickHouse: avoiding a full rewrite

• Rust vs C++: competition or evolution in systems programming for 2026

• Tor Ditches C for Rust and Your Privacy Benefits

• A New Era for New Relic’s Lambda Extension: From Go to Rust

• Your Frontend Framework is Technical Debt: Why I Deleted React for Rust

• Pydantic: The Python Darling That Loves Rust

Hardware 🛠️

• A Cheap Upgrade for Your Raspberry Pi 5

• Fusion HAT+ Raspberry Pi expansion board targets motor and servo control with AI and LLMs

• Nordic nRF7002 EBII

• Quarky Intellio – A LEGO-compatible AI, Augmented Reality, and IoT learning platform

• NXP i.MX 93 and i.MX 91 Coin-Sized Modules

• Sanctuary Systems' Sentinel Core

• Edge Core Unified IoT Solution

• CANBOB: A breakout board that enables USB or SPI to CAN communication

• nRF9151 SMA DK development kit

• CM0 – A new Raspberry Pi you can't buy

• Luxonis OAK4 standalone AI vision camera

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Educational Resources

A curation of embedded & Rust educational resources and tutorials

Tutorials & Walkthroughs 📫

• Writing our own Cheat Engine in Rust

• Tokenization, Building an LLM From Scratch in Rust

• Building Rust Apps For Cheap Hackable Handheld Console

• Where to Begin with Embedded Rust?

• Building Secure OTA Updates for ESP32 Over BLE with Rust

Insights, Tools, & Case Studies 📑

• Rust GCC back end: Why and how

• Rust Compilation short video

• Naming GPU things in the Rust Compiler and Standard Library

• Combating AI coding atrophy with Rust

• Bart Massey Interview, Rust Embedded Working Group

• MemCloud: Pool Unused RAM Across Machines on Your LAN (Rust, Zero-Config)

• How I Published My Rust Bun Version Manager (bum) CLI to NPM Package

• Writing our own Cheat Engine in Rust

• Rust unit testing: buffered file reading

• Why Rust for Embedded Systems? (and Why I'm Teaching Robotics with It)

• Tiny VM sandbox in C with apps in Rust, C and Zig

• Beyond Cargo Audit: Securing Your Rust Crates in Container Images

• Redox OS: Is the Future of Operating Systems Written in Rust?

• Could Rust migrate from GitHub?

• Writing a blatant Telegram clone using Qt, QML and Rust. And C++

• Errors in Rust: A Deep Dive

• 10 Things I Wish I Knew Before Learning Embedded Systems

• Shipping Embedded Rust: The firmware behind a production keyboard using RMK and Embassy

General Embedded 📟️

• Deploying TinyML for energy-efficient object detection and communication in low-power edge AI systems

• How we built a test bench for embedded system testing

• Using Custom Work Queues for Sensor Readings in Zephyr

• I Built a Processor for Advent of Code Day 8

• Putting KDE On Raspberry Pi OS Simpler Than Expected

• You Can Turn Your Raspberry Pi Into A Local AI Agent - Here's How

• How to add your own images to Imager

• The Boot Order of the Raspberry Pi Is Unusual

• FANN-on-MCU: Open-Source Supporter of IoT at the Edge

• Accelerating Mixed-Precision QNN Inference on RISC-V MCUs With the STAR-MAC Unit

• Learn STM32 Microcontroller Programming - Full Course for EE/CS Students and Beginners Version 2

• 10 Things I Wish I Knew Before Learning Embedded Systems

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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 🚨

• aarch64-rt v0.4.0

• stm32f1-hal v0.3.0

• semihosting v0.1.21

• aarch64-cpu v11.2.0

• embassy-rp v0.9.0

• edge-net v0.12.0

• edge-nal-embassy v0.7.0

Upcoming Events & Deadlines 🎭

• TokioConf 2026 - April 20th, 2026 - Portland, Oregon, USA

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

• Rust In Paris - March 27th, 2026 - CFP Open: Submission Link, Deadline: December 31st, 2025 - 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 - CFP Open: Submission Link, Deadline: December 31st, 2025 - Utrecht, Netherlands

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

• RustConf - September 8-11, 2026 - CFP Open: Submission Link, Deadline: February 16th, 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 🌍️

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

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

North America-Based Jobs 🌎️

• 🦀 Embedded Systems Engineer - Oxide, Remote, USA

• 🦀 Embedded Software Engineer - Rivian/VW, Palo Alto, CA and Vancouver, Canada

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

• 🦀 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

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

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