"It will also be the most fun you've had with a computer in a long time and it will likely make you look at the rest of what we do with computers as clunky in the extreme."
Double true if one looks at the hardware and software Chuck Moore makes with it.
http://www.greenarraychips.com/ is his current company, mostly notable for extremely low-power chips using asynchronous circuits (i.e. there's no central clock). IIRC he develops the CAD software he uses to design chips on his own chips.
Double true if one looks at the hardware and software Chuck Moore makes with it.