Foreword

We first met “Grumpy Mike” Cook at the Arduino forum, where we spent long hours giving support to people from all over the world. We created special categories for our users depending on the amount of answers they would write to the questions popping up in the forum. For awhile, you would be listed as “God” if you had answered over 500 posts in the forum and someone, already in 2010, defined the “Grumpy Mike” level, since he had over 9,000 posts answered.

We began adding new levels using names of scientists and technologists, and Grumpy Mike quickly reached the highest level—Brattain—the one reserved for those having answered over 15,000 posts.

Besides his amazing capability to help people, Grumpy Mike builds his own projects. We happened ...

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