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[Reply #15 on:]

@fkeel: last time I used pcbpool but madworm's comment is true. However I have very mixed experiences with chinese manufacturing. In the end it is a question how much time and/or money you want to spend. Cheap, fast, good quality --> pick two

[Reply #16 on:]

There are already so many systems out there and then to meet the consumer electronics demands is well pretty easy but to meet the engineer electronics demands is like going to a trip to Hell! and then trying to come back to life on earth.

[Reply #17 on:]

This is just one person's opinion, but I only see the pre-fabbed dev boards as useful for simple prototyping.  Any time I have a project, I design a PCB (stripboard is always an option) around the chip of my choice, with the peripherals of my choice.  I don't think I would ever buy an Arduino (or clone) with the exact combination of chip and I/O I need, because that varies so much by what I intend to do.

Heck, half the time, even when prototyping, I just put a chip on a breadboard.  Unless my needs can be met with just the pin 13 LED and a couple wires, it's less fragile on a board.

That said, for prototyping:
 - The Uno is perfect for small projects.
 - The Mega is perfect for large I/O projects.
 - There are several good options for native USB projects.
 - The Arduino team needs to implement official 1284P support like yesterday for memory-hungry (and/or large I/O) projects.

So what's left?  I guess a 32-bit AVR board would be cool.  Although I haven't even checked to see what that end of the pool looks like in terms of cost and features.

[Reply #18 on:]

I guess a 32-bit AVR board would be cool.

hmm can be , it would be utility!