Elliot is a Ph.D. in Economics, a former government statistician, and a lifelong electronics hacker. He was among the founding members of HacDC, Washington DC's hackerspace, and served as president and vice-president for three years. He now lives in Munich, Germany where he work for an embedded hardware development firm which has to date exactly one employee (and CEO). This book came out of his experiences teaching AVR programming workshops at HacDC.
