Tutorial

Ready to go hands-on?

If you are not a developer, you can skip this section and go directly to the Tracks of ODP to explore the various paths available. However, even non-developers may find it useful to understand the basics of Rust and how ODP uses it to ensure safety and reliability in firmware development.

Later in this book we will be writing real embedded code for real hardware, using one of many easily sourced and affordable development boards, such as the STM32F3Discovery Board, which is used in the Rust Embedded Book and is suitable for the exercises we will conduct here.

If you have a different development board, that's fine -- the examples are not really tied to any particular piece of hardware, and only minor adjustments may be needed to adapt the instructions here to different hardware.

👓 👉 If you are new to embedded programming in Rust, you may find the guide and exercises in the Rust Embedded Book to be a great introduction.

Once we have learned the basic principles of how to use the Rust language in an embedded environment, and have set up the tooling, we are ready to move into the ODP framework to structure our designs.

Continue your journey with the Discovery board, which bridges familiar embedded projects and EC-style service structure.

Not ready to go hands-on?

That's okay -- but you might want to look through this quick tutorial anyway because it contains key examples of the ODP construction patterns in practice.