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Cleanup references to "Day 4" (#603) 
* Align outline with new spin-off course structure

With the new structure, the section on Android is a spin-off course
from the main 3-day course on Rust Fundamentals. The Bare-metal and
Concurrency days are spin-off courses in the same way.

* Explain new course structure

* Align Bare-Metal welcome page with other deep dives

* Merge Day 4 page into Course Structure page

* Remove Day 4 Welcome page

This aligns the Concurrency in Rust section with the Bare-Metal Rust
deep dive.

* Show subsections for Android deep dive

This aligns the Rust in Android section with the other deep dives.

* Clean up welcome page and README

We now cover async Rust and the course is no longer a four day course.

* Remove reference to the old Day 4

* Remove Day 4 references from exercises
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Welcome to Bare Metal Rust

This is a standalone one-day course about bare-metal Rust, aimed at people who are familiar with the basics of Rust (perhaps from completing the Comprehensive Rust course), and ideally also have some experience with bare-metal programming in some other language such as C.

Today we will talk about 'bare-metal' Rust: running Rust code without an OS underneath us. This will be divided into several parts:

  • What is no_std Rust?
  • Writing firmware for microcontrollers.
  • Writing bootloader / kernel code for application processors.
  • Some useful crates for bare-metal Rust development.

For the microcontroller part of the course we will use the BBC micro:bit v2 as an example. It's a development board based on the Nordic nRF51822 microcontroller with some LEDs and buttons, an I2C-connected accelerometer and compass, and an on-board SWD debugger.

To get started, install some tools we'll need later. On gLinux or Debian:

sudo apt install gcc-aarch64-linux-gnu gdb-multiarch libudev-dev picocom pkg-config qemu-system-arm
rustup update
rustup target add aarch64-unknown-none thumbv7em-none-eabihf
rustup component add llvm-tools-preview
cargo install cargo-binutils cargo-embed

And give users in the plugdev group access to the micro:bit programmer:

echo 'SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ATTR{idVendor}=="0d28", MODE="0664", GROUP="plugdev"' |\
  sudo tee /etc/udev/rules.d/50-microbit.rules
sudo udevadm control --reload-rules

On MacOS:

xcode-select --install
brew install gdb picocom qemu
brew install --cask gcc-aarch64-embedded
rustup update
rustup target add aarch64-unknown-none thumbv7em-none-eabihf
rustup component add llvm-tools-preview
cargo install cargo-binutils cargo-embed