> big improvement on the status quo when it came out in ~2005, I agree. If anything its an understatement. I could, as a normal person outside academia, witho

> big improvement on the status quo when it came out in ~2005, I agree. If anything its an understatement. I could, as a normal person outside academia, without a structured learning environment, do microcontrollers, affordably. Not only that, I could make amazing things with it. sure there was the basic stamp, but that was well, basic.