The killjoy afficiando commenters at Hack a Day love to deride as unsophisticated any project that uses an Ardunio (e.g. this thread). The platform has become so popular that, to co-opt a concern about Gutenberg’s moveable type: “it makes electronics the infatuation of people who have no business doing electronics.”

So why not make it even easier? Enter Teagueduino. Solder-free, connector-wired boards and components… a new, slick and intutive IDE… and a way-overfunded Kickstarter drive to pay for its development. It’s all open source, of course. (link)