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To be more specific: PCB manufacture anywhere other than China is, given the current economics, so dead. This includes the USA. The only viable alternative is SE asian countries (e.g. Malaysia) but that's not at a comparable scale. The reason is simply economics (e.g. labour costs, equipment, etc).

"This approach is not going to revive electronics in Europe."

Revive what exactly? There's ASML, IMEC and many others. Then a host of PCB fabs that are expensive but are present and perfectly useful such as Eurocircuits and many others. This project is typical of these conferences where people find it interesting and fun to do things from scratch.

Given the economics, it is not possible for anywhere other than a couple of south east asian countries to be competitive at scale with Chinese manufacturers. This presentation hasn't a hope of replacing that using the methods outlined but it doesn't mean its a waste of time!

Depends which model. Arduino Mega retails in Europe for around 50 euro.

Teensy is the best imo...would love to see that expand into more boards/specific use cases.

Ah yes unilad a great repository of rigorous scientific results haha.

There's a lot of complexity in fungal physiology and research has barely scratched the surface.

Dunning-Kruger is basically a middling party put down at this stage. Similarly this article is not making a whole lot of sense other than as a mild and wildly applied dis?

What about the case where publicity is intentionally avoided so as not to have results drowned in a deluge of hyperbole and journalistic hubris?

Yes, that's vague. I specifically mean a creative monopoly. Compare the writing and dialogue of a Paul Thomas Anderson or Tarantino movie to Rockstar. Most of their games don't come close. Because it's a game the standard for storyline and dialogue is slightly lower because you are like "wow I am almost literally a cowboy/Nico". I wonder if we will see a mix of games with genuinely Tarantino style writing and narrative + technical / design implementation. Small studios doing this faster and more ethically would be better. People who quit Rockstar are very talented with something to prove too.

I genuinely cringed at the end of RDII due to the dialogue just feel the need to mention that again...

I love GTA/Red Dead but Rockstar really is just another monopoly (in terms of creativity) at this stage. More mid sized studios, like Rockstar when it started/midway, would be better.

Also the narrative and dialogue is ever so slightly overated in Rockstar games because the competition is quite nerdy/square in that department as are most of the audience. The ending of Red Dead II was actually quite trite, especially in terms of dialogue and narrative (in my opinion) even though the game is incredible overall. It is honestly still very far from a Tarantino script.

Also I genuinely love your educational progression and kudos for it!