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It is kind of annoying that there's a two tier market: as a consumer, you can buy all sorts of extremely cheap nifty boards to connect to the Arduino, by having them posted from China to circumvent all the rules. But you can't circumvent the rules yourself.

(Well, you can, the enforcement is pretty adhoc, but there is still a nonzero chance of getting spotted and fined and they can actually collect against you in the EU)

Do they really? I'm not sure I agree, these days we have things like Arduino and Raspberry Pi which have been a huge success, and I'd argue they attract a much wider range of children than middle-class white boys who just happened to grow up near innovation centres.

Even the ability to access code has been deprecated almost by the force of financial investment and intellectual property investment.