I finally got up and running in a productive way with the odrive board. Awesome piece of tech. This is going to take us places.
I put together a text file as I was learning. Maybe it is helpful to someone else. I’m running out of the jupyter notebook now. I should be off to the races from here. I’m not going to use an arduino, just straight python to the odrive. Awesome work putting the python software together.
Here is a link to a Getting Started txt file.
GettingStartedTXT
Hi Steven, YES, this file will help as many new users ask the same questions.
Where do I begin? 
On behalf of the ODrive community I thank you!
Regards Jerry 