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Issue Highlights

🦀 Rust 1.74 landed
📆 Deadline for Winter Rust Bootcamp Approaching
🤖 New Variant of Rust-based P2PInfect Botnet Discovered
🐍 Hardware Bug Gives Python Advantage Over Rust
📚️ Google’s Comprehensive Rust v2 Landed
📦️ embedded-hal 1.0.0-rc.2, svdtools 0.3.6, & svd2rust 0.31.2 released
📰 Espressif Guest Edited ElektorMag Issue is Out

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Embedded Rust News 📰

• Embedded Working Group End-of-Year Call for Blog Posts 🔥 

• ESP Rust Training Material Updated to Latest Ecosystem Releases

• Elektor Mag, Guest-Edited by Espressif is Out (Paid Access) 🔥 

Rust Community News 🗞️ 🦀 

• Announcing Rust 1.74.1

• Announcing Rust 1.74.0

• Faster compilation with the parallel front-end in nightly

• Announcing general availability of the AWS SDK for Rust

• Introducing JetBrains, a Rust Foundation Silver Member organization

• Rust Project Goals

• SemanticDiff 0.8.8: Support For Rust And More

• New P2PInfect bot targets routers and IoT devices

• Rust-Based Botnet P2Pinfect Targets MIPS Architecture

• A Second Version Google’s Comprehensive Rust Landed

General Embedded News/Trends 📈 

• Infineon Extends Microcontroller Portfolio with New PSoC Edge Family of Products

• Eben Upton Hints at an RP2040 Successor, Promises a Raspberry Pi Compute Module 5 in 2024

• NXP Rolls Next-Gen UWB ICs to Enable Smarter Car Access and More

• Renesas Reveals Automotive Processor Roadmap

• Renesas reveals its first 32-bit RISC-V CPU

• Real-time notifications and much more in the new Arduino IoT Cloud Remote app

• SparkFun Locates Your Raspberry Pi to Centimeter Precision with Its GPS-RTK Dead Reckoning pHAT

• AWS STM32 ML at the Edge Accelerator shows the best of AI on microcontrollers when ST and Amazon Web Services come together

• LILYGO Updates Its Mini E-Paper Core Development Board with a Shiny New Espressif ESP32-S3 Version

• Initial support for ARMv7-R CPUs in Renode with Cortex-R5 and Cortex-R8

• Zero ASIC Wants to "Democratize Chip Making" with a Zero-Code, LEGO-Like ASIC Design Platform

Comparisons with other Languages 🔍️ 

• Rust std fs slower than Python!? No, it's hardware!

• Why Rust is Stopping Your Success. Use C++ and C# Instead

• When GO is better than Rust for Development

• Mojo Combines Python’s Ease with Performance of C++, Rust

Tutorials & Walkthroughs 📫

• Embassy on ESP: Getting Started

• Embassy on ESP: GPIO

• Async Rust on ESP32: Controlling a stepper using HTTP with accel-stepper

• Creating an OS using Rust: [Part-2] Creating a minimal Rust Kernel

Insights, Tools, & Case Studies 📑

• Simulate Arduino, ESP32, Pi Pico, STM32, And ATtiny with Wokwi

• Statime continues: Boundary Clocks and Master Ports

• Pendulum long-term goals: usability and security

• Designing a SIMD Algorithm from Scratch

• Behind the Scenes of Rust String Formatting: format_args!()

• Rust Temporary Lifetimes and "Super Let"

• Investigating Crazy Compile Times

• Mastering Concurrency in Rust: Mutexes vs. FIFO Queues

• Journey into Rust: A Cybersecurity Expert’s Tale with AccelerantGPT, Part 5 — Diving Deeper into Project Development

• How to set up Rust for Advent of Code

• Flipping Bits Like a Pro: Precise Rowhammering on Embedded Devices

• Elevating Embedded SDRs: The Rust Advantage

• Machine Learning Using Rust

• Practical Client-side Rust for Android, iOS, and Web

• What is RUST used for in an embedded system?

• Exploring the Rust 1.70 Update and LLVM 16: A Comprehensive Look

General Embedded 📟️ 

• Avoiding Mistakes using C in Embedded Systems

• Implementing Web Server on ESP32

• Embedding Cybersecurity Layers to Strengthen Embedded Systems

• Advancements in Artificial Intelligence within Embedded Systems

• Building a React F# UI for an Embedded System

• Exploring the Diverse World of Raspberry Pi Cameras: Variations, Applications, and OpenCV Integration

• Living on the Edge: How Embedded Edge Computing Devices can Help Industrial Producers Do More with Digital Transformation

• LExCI: A Framework for Reinforcement Learning with Embedded Systems

• How DevOps is Reshaping Automotive Embedded Systems

Rewrite it in Rust - Project Inspiration ✏️ 🦀 

• Creating a ChatGPT client with the Arduino GIGA R1 WiFi and GIGA R1 Display Shield

Device and/or Framework Crate Updates 🚨 

• embassy-executor v0.4.0

• embassy-executor-macros v0.4.0

• rtic-monotonics v1.4.1

• rtic-time v1.2.0

• portable-atomic v1.6.0

• Several ESP Device PACs

• embassy-sync v0.5.0

• embassy-time v0.2.0

• embedded-storage-async v0.4.1

• embedded-storage v0.3.1

• svdtools v0.3.6

• stm32f3xx-hal v0.10.0

• svd2rust v0.31.2

• embedded-hal-nb v1.0.0-rc.2

• embedded-io-async v0.6.1

• embedded-hal-async v1.0.0-rc.2

• embedded-hal v0.2.7

• embedded-nal-async v0.7.1

• esp-wifi v0.1.1

Upcoming/New Learning Resources & Training 📚

• WhyRust? - KDAB, Online, December, 13th, 2023

• Rust Bootcamp Winter 2023-2024 - Ukraine Rust Community, Online, Registration Deadline: December 14th, 2023

• WhyRust? - KDAB, Online, January, 10th, 2024

• Introduction to Rust - KDAB/Ferrous Systems, Online, January, 29th, 2024

• Introduction to Rust - KDAB/Ferrous Systems, Online, February, 26th, 2024

• Embedded Rust - KDAB/Ferrous Systems, Online, March, 6th, 2024

Upcoming Events & Deadlines 🎭

• Elektor Webinar: Dive into the Future of Matter and IoT with Elektor & Espressif - December 14th, 2023

• Open Hardware Summit Call for Talks and Proposals - Deadline December 17th, 2023

• Rust Nation UK - March 26th - 28th, 2024

• Embedded World - April 9th-11th, 2024, Nurnberg, Germany

• Embedded Open Source Summit - April 16-18, 2024, Seattle, Washington

Noteworthy Hardware 🛠️ 

📟️ Small development ESP32 board with PoE support

Noteworthy Repo or Crates 📦️ 

📦️ Simmer - A temperature unit library for embedded systems (and beyond)

📦️ Loco. The one-person framework for Rust for side-projects and startups

📦️ rust-unofficial / awesome-rust: A curated list of Rust code and resources

Noteworthy Post/Article/Interview 🖼️

💭 789 KB Linux Without MMU on RISC-V

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 Software Innovation Engineer - Codasip, Munich, Germany

• 🦀 Internship @ClickShare: C++ to Rust - Barco, Kortrijk, Belguim

• 🦀 Senior Embedded Software Engineer - Nedap, Netherlands (east)

• 🦀 Rust Engineer - Fusion Engineering, Delft, Netherlands

• 🦀 Embedded Systems Engineer, Software Platform - Wayve, London, UK

• 🦀 Master Thesis: Design of a sensor fusion network to extend the control of a reliability test system - Infineon, Austria

• 🦀 Working Student: Embedded Software Development - Firmware - Infineon, Germany

• 🦀 Internship: Industrial Setup for Formal Verification of Microcontroller - Infineon, Germany

• 🦀 Working student: Rust C/C++ interoperability and support - Bosch, Germany

• 🦀 Rust Developer - Intervall, Germany

• 🦀 Research Scientist for Embedded Software and Security - Siemens, Portugal

• 🦀 Software Architect for Embedded Systems - Siemens, Portugal

• 🦀 Embedded Software Developer - Siemens, Portugal

• 🦀 Senior Embedded Software Developer - Siemens, Portugal

North America Based Jobs 🌎️ 

• 🦀 Staff Embedded Software Engineer - SmartThings, Hybrid, Minneapolis, MN

• 🦀 Embedded Software Engineer - SmartThings, Hybrid, Minneapolis, MN

• 🦀 Various Rust Oriented Positions - MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Lexington, MA

• 🦀 Embedded Software Engineer - Umbra, Santa Barbara, CA

• 🦀 Senior Embedded Software Engineer - Umbra, Santa Barbara, CA

• 🦀 Senior Embedded Software Engineer - Turion Space, Irvine, CA

• 🦀 Sr. Embedded Engineer (electronics & programming) - Interstellar Lab, Multiple Locations (America and Europe)

• 🦀 Robotics Software Engineer (Rust) - Pictorus, Oakland, CA

• 🦀 Rust Software Engineer - Enfabrica, San Francisco, CA

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Rust Regards and Binary Blessings, 🦀

- Omar