Rust for IoT: Building an ESP32 Weather Sensor with MQTT, TLS, and OTA Updates

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etrem · 6h ago

I built a secure, Rust-based ESP32 weather sensor with OTA updates, MQTT over TLS, and a minimal OTA backend pulling from an OCI registry. The post walks through the design, setup, firmware, and lessons learned from working with low-memory devices and embedded Rust.

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Rust for IoT: Building an ESP32 Weather Sensor with MQTT, TLS, and OTA Updates

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