Embedded systems engineer, grey beard redneck hippy nerd. C (detest C++). Forgotten more asm languages than you and I have fingers and toes. Like Motorola/Atme AVR/ARM architectures. Dislike TI architectures. Iffy on Intel - at least 200K 8080 asm lines of code. (Obvious I like general purpose register architecture over specific dedicated pointer registers.)
Like Arduino because uses AVR (most of them). Gateway for kids into robotics.
Member quelab.net - Albuquerque hacker/maker space. Find one near you via hackerspaces.org