Introduction

This book is called Bare Metal C because it’s for people who get close to the hardware. It’s not for people who buy their computer in a box and never see the inside. The computer used in this book doesn’t even have a box. If you want to use it, you’re going to have to connect something to the “bare metal” of the board.

This book teaches embedded programming. An embedded computer is one that sits inside the machine and you never know it’s there. It’s the device that runs your garage door opener, your microwave, your car, or even your greeting card. But before it can do any of those things, it needs to be programmed. And that is ...

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