I was hogging the shop website for a few months now, but the Micro version of the board did not become available until now. I wondered if there are any predictions on when it will be available again. I found them VERY convenient for short-term projects - just stick them on a bread board, stick some additional electronics around them and you can use the setup for 2-3 weeks until you break it down again or make a more durable version of the given project.
Well.. might be... the support page mentioned that one can ask questions here, so I will leave this up here to see what comes from it further down the line.
There are certainly other places where I can buy the board, but I just like the idea of buying from Arduino directly since, well, I quite like the boards. And I find the business model of just buying the boards way better than the "please donate something for our software" thing that comes up when you press "Download" for the Arduino IDE.
Nothing big, and I will probably order them somewhere else if I need them (they are still in stock at various other resellers), but it would still be interesting to know if they are still supported or will be retired.
Robin2:
However the silly dispute among the Arduino founders has pissed me off sufficiently that I no longer feel positive towards the brand.
Based on everything I have seen, I don't consider the dispute to be "silly".
My personal take on it (and I could be wrong, of course) is that we have one member of the group (who came into the whole thing long after the Arduino "brand" started) decided to be greedy, and f'd over the original founders. It may be true that what he did was perfectly legal according to Italian law - but that doesn't mean it wasn't morally and ethically reprehensible.
What this person appears to be doing is more than just "riding on the coat-tails" of the original founders, but more like stealing the entire coat, while passerby shrug, saying "Its perfectly legal - the law allows for it, right?"
cr0sh:
My personal take on it (and I could be wrong, of course) is that we have one member of the group (who came into the whole thing long after the Arduino "brand" started) decided to be greedy, and f'd over the original founders. It may be true that what he did was perfectly legal according to Italian law - but that doesn't mean it wasn't morally and ethically reprehensible.
I have no idea what is right or wrong about this. But it will be resolved by law, not morals and it is silly not to recognize that and to keep shovelling money into lawyers' pockets.
A while they argue the value of the thing they are arguing about is disappearing down the toilet. Allowing that to happen is also silly.