On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 9:41 PM, Charles Craft wro= te: > 30 years later it's about time to market and minimizing work headaches. > If those people you look down on are completing their assignments with > systems instead of bits and bytes they're ahead of the curve. :-) > Unfortunately for them, "time to market" involves solving real problems and designing real solutions. Experience which they've missed out by buying an off the shelf gadget and clicking buttons on the computer. What when a client requires designing a REAL system? Not one that you can just quickly rig up with an Arduino and some lame ass "shields"? They don't make a shiel= d for that (tm). You have to design your own system from scratch. Any trained engineer won't have any headaches to minimize from a simple microcontroller board. The headaches lie elsewhere and one won't have the experience to solve them without really understanding what's going on. That experience an= d knowledge can't be gained by using an Arduino and being ignorant to the underlying principles. --=20 http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist .