Agreed. Parallax simply left it in suspended animation. Its a nice chip that would have had a bigger impact had they put the same effort into it as they put into the Basic Stamp. You can still use a Basic Stamp and do lots of fun stuff. Even though its ancient and outdated. But the learning materials and amount of knowledge shared by parallax and others is huge. Had they supported the properller in the same way I think that they could have Arduino'd (sorry for this) it. Creating a community of fans around such a great platform would have made robotics much more fun.