I used to program Intel 8031 (the ROMless version of the original MCS-51) in assembly language. Really low level, like the exact right number of NOP instructio

I used to program Intel 8031 (the ROMless version of the original MCS-51) in assembly language. Really low level, like the exact right number of NOP instructions to get a loop to run at 38KHz to generate a (modulated!) infrared carrier in software. And I got more functionality out of that primitive part than most modern Arduino programs get out of a microcontroller that's about 10x better. And I don't care! A few years ago I got an Arduino starter kit at a garage sale. I have kids now and not much geek time. I finally plugged the thing in, and literally 5 minutes later I was running code on it. Who cares that it's inefficient. It makes the difference between a project built and one not built. I already posted my most recent one the other day, but why not again... https://github.com/MarkusWandel/battery-tester https://github.com/MarkusWandel/battery-tester The code is right there. It's simple, it's readable, anyone could understand it in half an hour and change it. Not as heroic as my biggest MCS-51 assembly language project, whose source code is here: http://wandel.ca/homepage/rom.asm.html http://wandel.ca/homepage/rom.asm.html But tell me which of these is going to get someone over the "I can do this!" threshold?