a beginner-friendly “getting started” tutorial

I'm a hobbyist tinkerer who likes to play with microcontrollers and small computers like arduinos, raspis and feathers. I began reading the documentation for hubris hoping to get a taste for what running a rust-based microkernel on something like the new rp2040 feather would feel like and I'll admit that I'm overwhelmed by all the low level systems details and lack of hand-holding! I'm sure the choice to eschew virtual addressing - for instance - was an important one architecturally, but I'm at the stage where I want to flash my feather and blink an LED and I'm not clear on where to go for that.

I think what I would like to see is a concrete tutorial based on something you could buy from adafruit or sparkfun and something simple like blinking an LED, detecting a button press or buzzing a peizo. I would be tempted to copy something else structurally, or at least drawing inspo from the arduino and circuitpython projects.

I get if this is a low priority - oxide's goals don't seem to hinge on the hobbyist market - and I certainly don't want to be demanding, but I think it would make it a lot more approachable for me specifically ;) and hopefully I'm not the only one.

Thanks! Hope this is helpful!

Start by reviewing the existing Hubris documentation and current board support, then compare the structure of Arduino and CircuitPython getting-started material. Define a supported Adafruit or SparkFun board and a simple LED, button, or piezo walkthrough; done means a newcomer can follow it to flash the hardware and observe the result.