The Embedded Rustacean Issue #83

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Issue Highlights

🤖 Certifiable agentic AI comes to embedded debugging
🐧 17k lines of new Rust kernel code headed for Linux 7.4
🛡️ Red Hat and Ferrous Systems team up
☁️ A TypeScript port to Rust
🖥️ An ESP32 emulator written in Rust
🔐 TrustZone-M in Rust on the Pico 2
🧠 ExecuTorch lands on Arm Cortex-M
🧩 ESP-Mosaico is a modular ESP32-S31 hardware
🦀 Rust 1.99.1 and rustup 1.29.2 are out

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1. News & Article Roundup

2. Educational Resources

3. Updates, Events, & Announcements

4. Jobs & Adoption

5. Oxidize XIAO Community Program

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🆕 Added Embedded Electronics Course
🆕 New Embedded Foundations Path

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News & Article Roundup

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

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Embedded Rust News📰

• Red Hat and Ferrous Systems Collaborate to Enable Safety-Qualified Rust on Red Hat In-Vehicle Operating System ⭐️

• Ferrocene 26.08.0 now available

• esp32sim: Open-source ESP32 emulator in Rust ⭐️

• Veecle launches chiplab.test

• AI can write the code, the explanation has to be yours: TockOS contribution policy on AI

Rust News🗞️🦀

• A Fond Farewell To Three Rust Foundation Colleagues

• Rust Foundation Board Updates | October 2026

• Rust Foundation Launches Trusted Training Program

• Trust in Rust: Foundation Debuts Official Training

• Infrastructure Team 2026 Q3 Recap and Q4 Plan

• 1.99.1 pre-release testing

• zruntime: a simple single-threaded async runtime for Rust

• Announcing Rust 1.99.1 ⭐️

• 2026 is an exciting year for the Rust compiler (and me)

• Introducing tsrs: a Port of TypeScript to Rust ⭐️

• 17k Lines Of New Rust Kernel Code Heading Into Linux 7.4 ⭐️

• Linux 7.3 release – Main Changes, Arm, RISC-V, and MIPS architectures

• Announcing the GPU notification group and Linker Working Area

• Announcing rustup 1.29.2 ⭐️

Embedded AI/ML News🤖

• TASKING Brings Certifiable Agentic AI to Embedded Debugging Analysis with winIDEA AI Kit ⭐️

• Arm CMSIS Developer Assistant lets AI agents build, flash and debug Cortex-M targets

• Embedder Free launches: free tier of the AI platform for embedded software development

• Micros: Build embedded applications as services

• Bringing ExecuTorch to Arm Cortex-M CPUs

• Altera Launches QuartusIQ, An AI Expert Companion for Quartus Prime Software

• AI-Assisted Development at SEGGER

• 700B Parameter LLM on the VENTUNO Q!

• How Agentic AI Accelerates Edge AI Software Development

General Embedded News/Trends📈

• PlatformIO Adds ESP32 Arduino Core v3 Support & Sets Direction for AI-Driven Development

• IEEE Offers More Services to Cities That Want to Be Smarter

• You Can Now Talk to Your Raspberry Pi Pico Over SSH

• pyOCD Update — Connecting Device Intelligence, Debugging, and Automation

• Introducing a new flow for gathering Zephyr coverage data with Renode and Coverview

• Arduino Brings Zigbee Support to All Arduino Nano Matter Boards

• Linux Foundation Releases OpenChain Automotive SBOM Framework 1.0

Comparisons with Other Languages⚖️

• What agents mean for Rust (and vice versa)

Hardware🛠️

• Synaptics Claims a New Class of Edge AI Processors, Expands Coralboard Platform

• PlugMate and PlugClaw Review – Thumb-sized Android-based private computers with optional Ubuntu/OpenClaw support

• Orange Pi O1 SBC

• Arduino Showcases "Dual-Brain" Control Options

• ESP-Mosaico - An ESP32-S31-based modular development platform for AI-assisted hardware creation ⭐️

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Educational Resources

A curation of embedded & Rust educational resources and tutorials

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Tutorials & Walkthroughs 📫

• Embedded Rust BSPs with uFerris & Xiao: Seven-Segment Display Support with I2C

• Using TrustZone-M in Rust on the Raspberry Pi Pico 2 ⭐️

• Unboxing the ESP-Mosaico: ChatCoding and VibeCoding on an Agent-First Dev Board

Insights, Tools, & Case Studies📑

• Keep Calm and Call Clone with Rust

• CO3: Generate C bindings from Rust API

• cuTile Rust 0.4.0

• Anchoring Our Mental Model

General Embedded📟️

• Intro to LoRa Mesh Part 1: What are Meshtastic and MeshCore?

• Intro to LoRa Mesh Part 2: Getting Started with Meshtastic

• Agentic Zephyr Development: Build, Flash, Fix with AI

• Agentic Firmware Development is Here

• Create ExecuTorch applications for real devices

• Designing Edge AI for Real-Time Systems

• Adding B_M2MEM_PACK1 shield support to Zephyr

• Where LLMs go wrong in firmware: a field guide to failure modes

• A PC-like plug-and-play experience on an STM32 board with Zephyr, USB, HDMI and grvl

• Writing a Bare Metal Application Bootstrap with QEMU and Zig

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Updates, Events, & Announcements

Updates & announcements from the community

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Notable Device and/or Framework Crate Updates🚨

• defmt v1.2.0

• RTIC v2.4.0

• device-driver v2.2.0

• mavlink v0.20.0

Upcoming Events & Deadlines 🎭

• RustLab - November 1-3, 2026 - Bologna, Italy

• Espressif DevCon 2026 - November 3-4, 2026 - Milan, Italy

• Rust Nation UK 2027 - February 18, 2027 - London, UK (CFP deadline October 31)

• TokioConf 2027 - April 26-27, 2027 - Portland, Oregon, USA

• RustWeek 2027 - May 24-29, 2027 - Utrecht, Netherlands (CFP closes January 10, 2027)

• RustConf 2027 - September 7-10, 2027 - Vancouver, Canada & Online

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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 🌍

• 🦀 Junior Software Engineer, Debugger for Secure Embedded Systems — NXP, Gratkorn, Austria

• 🦀 Senior Embedded Security Vulnerability Analyst — NXP, Multiple Locations

• 🦀 Senior Software Engineer, Backend (Rust) — Amo, Paris, France

• 🦀 Embedded Rust Engineer — Anori Tech, Hamburg/Hybrid, Germany

• 🦀 Software Engineer - Autonomous Air System V&V — Helsing, Berlin/Munich, Germany

• 🦀 Software Engineer - Autonomous Air Systems — Helsing, Berlin/Munich, Germany

• 🦀 Software Engineer - Airborne Mission Systems — Helsing, Berlin/Munich, Germany

• 🦀 Senior Embedded Software Engineer — Spire, Glasgow, UK

• 🦀 Senior Embedded (ARM) Engineer - Quantum Computing — eleQtron, Siegen, Germany

• 🦀 Staff Firmware Engineer — Lunar Energy, UK

• 🦀 Senior Software Engineer (Linux, Rust, Python, C) — Veo, Copenhagen, Denmark

• 🦀 Manager - OTA Vehicle Engineering — Rivian and Volkswagen Group Technologies, Berlin, Germany

North America-Based Jobs 🌎

• 🦀 Senior Robotic Firmware Engineer — Anduril Industries, Irvine, CA, USA

• 🦀 Director of Embedded Software & FPGA Engineering — Loft Orbital, Golden, CO, USA

Asia-Based Jobs 🌏️

• 🦀 (New) Principal Embedded Software Engineer — NXP, Noida, India

• 🦀 (New) Experienced Embedded Software Engineer — NXP, Noida, India

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