On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 1:48 AM, Michael Watterson <mike@radioway.org> wrot=
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> Personally I don't like the Arduino mechanical arangement or the IDE
> concept. So I don't miss a Microchip version.
>
> I think Arduino is hyped way beyond it's value. It's for people that
> can't solder or do electronics I suppose.

Apparently Arduino is even caught the eyes of Google. It is
probably true that the Google programmers can not solder. :-)
http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/usb/adk.html

Actually I think Arduino is good (even though I do not use it)
in that it introduces Electronics/MCU to the general public.

And I now use ready-made demo boards from my spare-time
learning and experiments as well, not really want to do
any soldering at home.

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