About the article "10 Ways to Destroy an Arduino"

MichaelMeissner:

fungus:
Yep. AVR chips seem quite resilient to having their output pins shorted to ground. It's a good thing too, when you see the abuse they get (keep reading these forums for horror stories...)

I wonder if we are going to see horror stories about people's new Dues being destroyed

If the Raspberry Pi forums are anything to go by, it won't be pretty.

MichaelMeissner:
Shorting out your first Due is a teachable moment, shorting out the second probably indicates whether you ignored the teachable moment.

The Leonardos too, there's no $3 quick repair for them...