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Issue Highlights

✍️ Great Refactor Initiative and Rust
🐧 Linux 7.0 for Official Rust Adoption
🧠 Claude Built a C Compiler with Rust
📢 Espressif IDF 6 and WebRTC SDK
🍓 RasPi Competition & Price Updates
🤖 OpenClaw Embedded Experiments

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Table of Contents

1. News & Article Roundup 📰

2. Educational Resources 📚

3. Noteworthy Mentions ⭐️

4. Updates, Events, & Announcements 📢

5. Jobs & Adoption 💼

6. uFerris Project Updates 🦀

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News & Article Roundup

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

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Embedded Rust News 📰

• mousefood v0.4.0 released

• Slint 1.15 Released

• Simulator86 Update: Clocks and Leds

Rust News 🗞️🦀

• Oxidize 2026 CFP Open

• Announcing Rust 1.93.1

• Program management update — January 2026

• Microsoft's New Open-Source Rust Project: LiteBox

• Git 2.53 Release: Performance Gains, Rust Integration, and the Path to Git 3.0

• OpenIndiana Is Porting Solaris' IPS Package Management To Rust

• Great Refactor Initiative Looks to AI to Harden Critical Code ⭐️

• Linux 7.0 Officially Concluding The Rust Experiment ⭐️

• Building a C compiler with a team of parallel Claudes ⭐️

• First look at 2026 Project goals

• January 2026 Project Director Update

General Embedded News/Trends 📈

• Amazon KVS WebRTC SDK for Espressif Chipsets and ESP RainMaker Camera ⭐️

• A Look at IDF 6 Changes ⭐️

• Texas Instruments to acquire Silicon Labs 

• RP2350 Hacking Challenge 2: Less randomisation, more correlation

• Raspberry Pi Relaxes the Rules for Its RP2040 Hacking Challenge, $20,000 Still Up for Grabs 

• Raspberry Pi is raising prices again as memory shortages continue ⭐️

• Raspberry Pi 4 dual RAM variant introduced to mitigate RAM price increases and supply challenges ⭐️

• State of Flutter 2026

• Introducing the latest Arduino App Lab release

• Analog chipmaker SiTime to acquire Renesas' timing unit

• ams OSRAM sells sensor unit to Infineon

• STMicroelectronics completes acquisition of NXP’s MEMS sensor business

• Mikroe to provide development tools for Renesas MCUs

• ST Rolls Out Low-Power, Cost-Efficient Versions of STM32 MPUs

• This Arduino board is bigger than your head, and it works

• STMicroelectronics completes NXP MEMS acquisition

• Waymo builds fancy ai based simulator tool to improve robotaxi tests

• Seeed Studio Releases Their Own Affordable and Open Source Robotic Arm

Comparisons with Other Languages 🔍️

• What’s so great about Rust

• The ‘weird’ things that happened when Clickhouse replaced C++ with Rust

• Rust Is Just a Tool

• I Can't Believe Rust is Replacing Java

• Code Quality Analysis of Translations from C to Rust

• NetBSD’s Firm Stance Against Rust: Why One Major BSD Project Rejects Memory-Safe Code in Its Kernel

• How we interfaced single-threaded C++ with multi-threaded Rust

• Memory-Safe Jule language emerges as C/C++ alternative

• We Didn't Pick Rust

Hardware 🛠️

• Raspberry Pi Introduces Its First HAT Product for Generative AI

• I tested Raspberry Pi's new USB flash drive, and it has one key advantage over competitors

• Texas Instruments unveils MSPM33C321A mixed-signal Cortex-M33 microcontroller with 256KB SRAM, 1MB flash

• M5Stack AI-8850 LLM Accelerator M.2 Kit offers an alternative to Raspberry Pi AI HAT+ 2

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Educational Resources

A curation of embedded & Rust educational resources and tutorials

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Tutorials & Walkthroughs 📫

• Ratworks #19: Running Ratatui on a tiny screen with RP2040

• Ratworks #20: Building an embedded slideshow tool (Ratdeck)

• Ratworks #21: Building embedded TUIs

• Intro to Embedded Rust Part 2: Blink and LED

• Intro to Embedded Rust Part 3: USB Serial Logging and Debugging

• Developing a Desktop BLE Air-Quality Application with Rust

Insights, Tools, & Case Studies 📑

• Platform-agnostic async driver for the LSM9DS0 IMU

• Crispy Bootloader RP2040

• Reproducible Embedded Rust Development with Docker

• Deterministic AI: Reclaiming Predictable Latency with Rust and Zero-Cost Abstractions

• Minimal GitOps for Edge Applications with Azure

• Dockyard is a Faster Lazydocker, Written in Rust

• AutoAgents: Rust runtime for safe, production AI agents

• What is PhantomData in Rust?

• Homebrew and One-Line Installers for My Rust CLI: Lessons Learned

• Pre-RFC: Rust Safety Standard

• QRES: A decentralized "Neural Swarm" OS built in Rust

• So you want to contribute to Rust, but feel overwhelmed?

• mistral.rs 0.7.0: Fast and Flexible LLM inference engine in pure Rust

• Fun With Dada

• Auditing Rust Crates Effectively

• Debugger Dedicated to Embedded Systems

• RTEdbg: Open-Source Data Logging and Tracing for Embedded Systems

General Embedded 📟️

• Introducing CMSIS Support for Microchip Devices

• Zephyr Course 2026

• OpenClaw on Raspberry Pi ⭐️

• OpenClawGotchi: The Living AI on a Raspberry Pi ⭐️

• Leveraging the emApps Virtual Machine in Embedded Apps

• Simulating Embedded Systems

• You Can Build A Personal AI Chatbot Using Raspberry Pi - Here's How

• What are the benefits of RISC-V in AI, ML, and embedded systems?

• Introducing OpenPager: A POCSAG Transmitter Library for Arduino

• This Stream Deck alternative runs on an Arduino UNO Q

• Building an industrial-level embedded device with .NET and Uno Platform

• Raspberry Pi From Zero to Hero Course

• OpenClaw Can Program Your Arduino ⭐️

• Easy Remote Access with Raspberry Pi Connect 2026 Tutorial

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Noteworthy Mentions

Useful resources worth mentioning

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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

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Notable Device and/or Framework Crate Updates 🚨

• burn v0.20.1

• mousefood v0.4.0

• stm32g4xx-hal v0.1.0

• zerocopy v0.8.39

• stm32f1-hal v0.14.1

• rp235x-hal v0.4.0

• rp2040-hal v0.12.0

Upcoming Events & Deadlines 🎭

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

• Rust In Paris - March 27th, 2026 - Paris, France

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

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

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

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

• RustWeek - May 18-23, 2026 - 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 - CFP Open: Submission Link, Deadline: March 23rd, 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

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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 🌍️

• 🦀 Systems Software Engineer (Rust) - ai-coustics, Berlin, Germany

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

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

North America-Based Jobs 🌎️

• 🦀 Software Engineer, Flight Software - Heart Aerospace, Los Angeles, USA

• 🦀 Scientist, Software Engineer - Rust Expert - L3Harris, New Jersey & Virginia, USA

• 🦀 Rust Embedded Engineer - Swarm Biotactics, San Diego, CA, USA

• 🦀 Embedded Systems Engineer - Oxide, Remote, 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

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

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Rust Regards and Binary Blessings, 🦀

- Omar