I'm all for supporting small business that create hardware, especially open source (heck, I'm working on some stuff myself), but they must make an effort to mak

I'm all for supporting small business that create hardware, especially open source (heck, I'm working on some stuff myself), but they must make an effort to make their products affordable. I can buy a 3.2" touchscreen LCD for $12 in single quantities[0], shipped locally in the UK. The BOM for an Arduino is somewhere around $10 in single quantities. Their selling point about only using 2 pins? Yeah, shift registers or i2c I/O expanders are so fancy... [0] http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/3-2-TFT-LCD-Display-Module-Touch-Panel-Screen-PCB-Adapter-240-x-320-Pixels-/331106884444?pt=UK_BOI_Electrical_Components_Supplies_ET&hash=item4d17821b5c http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/3-2-TFT-LCD-Display-Module-Touch-P...