Welcome to the Lounge

And so we come to my sincerest goal in writing this book instead of simply another blinky-LEDs-on-an-Arduino manual — to turn you into a true microcontroller type. Although the Arduino environment is good for getting people hooked on microcontrollers, it’s a cheap high. Arduino/Wiring goes to great lengths to abstract away from the microcontroller’s hardware. Here, I want to teach you about the hardware — because it’s useful — so getting further away from it won’t help. (My friend Ash once described working with the Arduino environment as being “like knitting in boxing gloves.”)