The price tag seems okay to me. It's no more than the teensy and is a special set of code and blah blah blah that does have people behind it. There is a lot to this I suppose.And it is in a 32bit stage at the moment. So code and provided seems okay enough.I did, however, fail to see the opensource firmware the actual hardware is running. Yeah, api's and other crap, but no sign of actual metal firmware on the site. I'm sure it could and is out there, but it isn't obvious.When this was in the 8bit stage i would say the price was wrong and you where getting screwed, but it isn't at that stage anymore. This would be cheaper than a GumStix, and could be flashed with other things.So price seems okay to me. Consumer, demand, supplier, shit in between. They have to manufacture it, package it, ship it, support it, all with their own costs involved. I would say this is cheap. The only thing making it expansive is shipping like you said, but that is only a matter of location. If it where to be manufactured in your own country, shipping else where would be just as high for the rest of us. If anything, have a friend in the US get it for you, then have them ship it, I can bet the cost would be about the same.This ducky isn't in mass production and isn't for the mass market. If it where, then yeah shipping and build cost would be reduced, but it's not. Everyone and their grandma isn't buying this device and it will never be that way. Supply and Demand.If your not happy with it, do it yourself. There are more than plenty of platforms and things and such, even with 32bit chips to do this. ARM is really popular at the moment and you can have chips a dime a dozen.
sorry for the wall of text. i'm on le wifes computer and posted under her. But after realizing it, I copied and pasted then removed the mistaken one, and the formatting didn't carry over. I'm too laze to fix it and shit, so meh.
