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Programming embedded systems from scratch. All hardware, memory, timers, peripherals, etc, must be set up correctly at startup, and if you set even one single bit incorrect in any of the sometimes hundreds of 32- or 64-bit configuration registers, you are screwed. There is often no terminal that prints error messages to help you, but if you are lucky you have an (often very expensive) hardware in-circuit debugger to step through the start up code.

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    Building stuff from scratch is fun. I build and program single-board computers with old processors like Z80, 68008 and 80C188. I'd like to do one with a 68030 and actually run Linux on it.
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    I love low level stuffs. It sparks the hacker fire in you. Haha
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