On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 9:08 AM, Gerhard Fiedler wrote: > If this pisses you off, you're probably in the wrong field. This is how > technology works. If you want to stay out of this, you need to stay > ahead of the commodity technology. Anything with any appeal sooner or > later will become commodity, that's what /we/ do (at least some of us, > in some cases): we improve the stuff, until it works /reliably/ without > messing around, until Joe Everybody can use it and it's ready to become > a commodity. Part of working in and with technology means being able to > use commodity technology to create new technology. That the existing > commodity technology is what 50 years ago was the new technology is > exactly the point. > I see a different perspective. There is nothing special about the Arduino hardware. Everyone and their brother has tried to make a copy of the Arduino because they want to be popular. They make modest performance improvements or add a few features. They're missing the fact that Arduino is only popular because of the marketing and because it IS inexpensive. Deny the cost if you (they) like, but $20-30 for a microcontroller development board is cheap. I've etched my own boards and soldered my own boards. Those boards are going to be 20* the cost of an Arduino if I count my time. People love to complain about how their way is better than some other way. They may be correct, however there aren't 10k/100k/10M people doing it their way. They're using the other technology. Whining about technical shortcomings is stupid in this case. You should continue doing whatever you think is the best way to do it. Just don't tell everyone who's already doing it that they're doing it wrong. --=20 Martin K. I own an Arduino, but I've never actually used it. --=20 http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist .