workshop scope - hardware platform

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Would like to use a hardware platform readily targetable by Rust, which is very cheap <$30, ideally lower, so cost is less of a factor for participation.

• Brad and David will purchase some number of kits for donation, if cost is a concern for any participants.
• Question: is https://github.com/avr-rust a viable for our needs? (needs to feel like a drop-in replacement for rustc 1.32.1+); would allow us to target ultra-low-cost Arduino platforms
• Open issue: develop on LInux (e.g. RPi3) to make bluetooth radio development simpler or on bare metal (e.g. STM32 Discovery-very well documented for Rust or Arduino-inexpensive but not as well supported).

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@davidarmstronglewis, @modulitos: looking for reasons to adopt one platform over another; came across this by Sergio Benetez, the author of the Rocket crate: https://cs140e.sergio.bz/about/

This is whole curriculum dedicated to developing a bare metal app (the OS) on the RPi3. I believe we can update this to Rust 2018 and dramatically simplify this to become the toy_car curriculum.

Pls LMK if you have any thoughts on this, either for or against.