Well said.  I've been trying to figure out exactlybwhat bugged me about
this...and this is exactly it.

John


> I guess I'm biased then. What pisses me off about the Arduino is that all
> the script kiddies go and get one and type some random code and think
> they've got it all down when they see an LED blink from some code they
> copy/pasted off the Internet. That's pretty much 95% of all the kids in m=
y
> university getting a damn Arduino. Everything's pre built for them. They
do
> zero laying down of EE components. All they do is plug it in and type.
> That's not engineering. That's just stupid. They don't know anything abou=
t
> making schematics, designing a PCB, assembling it, inserting the
processor,
> downloading your OWN assembler program via ICSP and seeing some /actual
> code/ run. Most of these script kiddie dev boards get used to run "Hello
> world" crap. It's a bastardization of the whole concept of EE, that is,
the
> design process that I outlined above.
>
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