At some point I'll take time off reading as many tutorials as I can find and
type in a ready made "flash a LED" program, but I'd like to get the
instructions I don't understand down to a minimum by then.

We don't all have that much discipline!

I like to flash a light or wiggle something to help motivate me into
reading more....

Wiggling an RC Servo is another Lab project. I have not found anything
especially useful with this project because controlling one servo is
not enough and more than one gets complicated in a hurry!

John Ferrell W8CCW
"Life is easier if you learn to
plow around the stumps"