My first attempts at programming were writing hacky embedded C++ to run Arduino microcontrollers, brute forcing my way through compiler errors to try to make LEDs blink and motors spin. These days I write most of my code in high-level, dynamically-typed languages, but there’s still something alluring about that intersection of software and hardware - about watching your code run in the physical world. So, leaving behind the comfort of high-level abstractions and garbage-collected memory man...
