I appreciate the warning. We'll see how it goes.
I'm not programming in machine code, for the record. Assembly. I was just saying that the fact that one
can assemble things by hand provides some justification that you don't
have to trust an assembler (at least if you're writing small amounts of code). I will be trusting one.
What do you think the hardest part is, interfacing with various pieces of hardware? Where would you start as far as programming some assembly (like flash an led) on the board from a linux devel machine? (link?) What software would you use?