What was the first Arduino board ?

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One of the things that is "interesting" about the thesis is his ideas about "reasonable cost", which seems to assume that the major customers would be universities and such, rather than individual hobbyists. (I used to work for a University, and noticed pretty quickly that the "This is great! I can get a Sun Workstation for only $10k" was an entirely different mindset than I had as an individual consumer...) A lot of the "existing products" he evaluated were in the $100+ range by the time you had all the bits and pieces...

Huh. I just noticed that the thesis has "beginSerial()" and "serialWrite()", and no sign of C++ "objects" anywhere. When did Wiring (or Arduino) start using C++?
(Hmm. I have Arduino0003: no .cpp files at all. Arduino0007 does have some C++... My only copies of Wiring are from the 2011 resurgence...)

It's also interesting how few details of the actual implementation are in the thesis. I guess that's appropriate for a "design" thesis, but it's a bit frustrating from a technical perspective.

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The person who turned me on to C said that “Unix is written in C.” as his last point on how good C is.

With Arduino, the C approach lets me get close to the metal where the chip control registers are at my code fingertips with lots of resources and features for less than lunch money in many cases.

PS - the 1284P DIP is back up to $7 in singles. They were $5.50 not long ago.