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Issue Highlights

✍️ Rust Adoption and Debugging Survey Calls
🧑‍💻 How to Vibe Code Embedded Systems
🐍 MicroPython Requiring AI Disclosure
♾️ Arduino gets into Matter
🦞 zClaw is an Embedded Compatible Agent
🐦️ Ladybird Browser Adopting Rust

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Table of Contents

1. News & Article Roundup 📰

2. Educational Resources 📚

3. Updates, Events, & Announcements 📢

4. Jobs & Adoption 💼

5. 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 📰

• Async/await on the GPU

• HighTec Rust and C/C++ Arm dev platform adds LLVM 19 support

• Eclipse S-CORE 0.6.0 introduces dual-language support for C++ & Rust

Rust News 🗞️🦀

• Rust Developer Ecosystem Survey 2025: Popularity, Trends, and Future

• crates.io: an update to the malicious crate notification policy

• Rust participates in Google Summer of Code 2026

• This Development-cycle in Cargo: 1.94

• Leadership Council March 2026 Representative Selections

• Rust debugging survey 2026 ⭐️

• Rust Adoption Survey ⭐️

• Kellnr 6.0.0 released

• Ralph Giles has died

• FreeBSD's Rust Kernel Support Could Be Stable Enough To Try This Year

• GNU Google Summer of Code Project: Porting a C library to Rust

• Cloudflare Releases Agents SDK v0.5.0 with New Rust-Powered Engine

• EuroRust 2026: Call for Speakers

General Embedded News/Trends 📈

• Raspberry Pi Promises Assistance with Certifying Third-Party Antennas for Use with Compute Modules

• Raspberry Pi Stock Rises Over Its Possible Use With OpenClaw's AI Agents

• From Blink to Think: Unveiling The Dual-Brain Bridging Advanced Computing with Precise Control

• MicroPython Now Requires AI Disclosure on Every Pull Request ⭐️

• Tasking Announces Integrated Embedded Software Toolchain

• The new Arduino Matter Discovery Bundle is everything you need to learn, experiment, and build with Matter ⭐️

• GyroidOS virtualization solution aims to secure embedded devices, ease cybersecurity certification

• zclaw: personal AI assistant in under 888 KB, running on an ESP32 ⭐️

• CraftifAI Raises $3 Mn To Build AI Tools For Embedded Software Development

• GlobalFoundries and Renesas expand chip partnership

• Edge AI Foundation Launches Working Group to Advance Mission-Critical AI Capabilities for Defense and Government Operations 

• BayLibre partners with Arm to bring Zephyr OS support to Armv9 Cortex-A processors

• Tasking unveils enhanced timing analysis tools for multicore embedded systems

• Renesas unveils SoC tech for next-gen automotive ECUs

Comparisons with Other Languages 🔍️

• We interfaced single-threaded C++ with multi-threaded Rust

• Farewell, Rust

• Rust’s Enterprise Takeover: When Memory Safety Becomes Non-Negotiable

• Ladybird Browser Just Ported C++ Code to Rust in 2 Weeks Thanks to AI ⭐️

• STOC 2025 shortest path algorithm in C, Rust, and Zig.

• Verifpal, Rewritten in Rust

• AI Agent Benchmark in 2026 shows Rust Leads its way

Hardware 🛠️

• Pico-ITX embedded computing board for AI

• Image Quality Labs Gives the Arduino UNO Q Eyes

• NXP S32N79 “Super-Integration Processor” Targets Software-Defined Vehicles

• PocketBeagle 2 SBC gets industrial version

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Educational Resources

A curation of embedded & Rust educational resources and tutorials

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Tutorials & Walkthroughs 📫

• Intro to Embedded Rust Part 4: Ownership and Borrowing

• Intro to Embedded Rust Part 5: Reading from an I2C Temperature Sensor

• Intro to Embedded Rust Part 6: Generics & Traits

• device-envoy: Making Embedded Fun​ with Rust

• device-envoy: Making Embedded Fun​ with Rust (Blog Write Up)

• We’re launching 60 Rust Exercises Designed for Python Devs

• A Witless Fool, Building an LLM From Scratch in Rust

Insights, Tools, & Case Studies 📑

• Crates.io’s Freaky Friday

• Shedding old code with ecdysis: graceful restarts for Rust services at Cloudflare

• How AI coding is breathing new life into Rust 

• FOSDEM 2026 Rust Devroom in Review

• What it means that Ubuntu is using Rust

• Is Embedded Rust Ready for Primetime?

• Python Rust Extensions: Massively Speed Up Your Code

• Rust Zero-Cost Abstractions Deep Dive

• Shipping My Rust CLI to Windows: Lessons Learned

• OpenClaw Alternatives That You Can Run on Raspberry Pi Like Devices

• Parse, Don't Validate and Type-Driven Design in Rust

• How to Run Rust on Jupyter Notebooks

• The Evolution of Async Rust: From Tokio to High-Level Applications

• The State of Software Development in 2026

• A simple dead man's switch in Rust

• herkos: Compile-time memory isolation via WebAssembly-to-Rust transpilation

General Embedded 📟️

• Running Machine Learning on Arduino Nano

• Power Management in NuttX

• How I built a Universal Push Button Module Using Claude Code ⭐️

• The Hidden Costs of Using Zephyr (and How to Mitigate Them)

• Airborne Embedded Software

• The idea of using a Raspberry Pi to run OpenClaw makes no sense

• Book on PCIe Design for Emerging Embedded Systems

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

• Pareto Optimal Benchmarking of AI Models on ARM Cortex Processors for Sustainable Embedded Systems

• Making IoT and Embedded Devices Even More Secure

• Arduino + AI: Firmware by Conversation

• Arduino UNO Q: Hybrid Linux-MCU Platform for IoT and AI

• Future of Edge AI in Biodiversity Monitoring

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Updates, Events, & Announcements

Updates & announcements from the community

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Notable Device and/or Framework Crate Updates 🚨

• atsamd-hal v0.23.2

• rt v0.18.0

• embedded-graphics v0.8.2

Upcoming Events & Deadlines 🎭

• 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 - Montreal, Canada

• Oxidize - September 14-16, 2026 - CFP Open: Submission Link, Deadline: March 23rd, 2026 - Berlin, Germany

• EuroRust - October 14-17, 2026 - CFP Open: Submission Link, Deadline: April 27th, 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 🌎️

• 🦀 (New) Embedded Software Engineer, Rust - Viasat, Multiple Locations, USA

• 🦀 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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