Computers don’t simply "understand" code in the way humans do. They rely on a highly sophisticated series of steps to ...

To program these chips, [Aaron] first had to wire up the microcontroller into a circuit. This was just a bit of perf board, a resistor, a few caps, and a USB A plug.

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