This is going to cause so much consternation. The microcontroller hacking community already looks down on the arduino because it is vastly overpowered for what

This is going to cause so much consternation. The microcontroller hacking community already looks down on the arduino because it is vastly overpowered for what most people use it for. They think people should be using the arduino as a rapid prototyping system, and then making their own circuit board with the individual components arranged as needed. They is a constant stream of blog posts looking for ways to get noob arduino hackers to "graduate" to designing their own circuits. While it all seems terribly unreasonable from the point of view of a software developer used to the idea of a tradeoff between hardware costs vs development time, it is very similar to the programming language wars. See: http://hackaday.com/2011/02/11/how-the-arduino-won-this-is-how-we-can-kill-it/ http://hackaday.com/2011/02/11/how-the-arduino-won-this-is-h...