This sounds disparaging of the "makers" but if your options for a hobby project are:
1) glue shit together
or
2) read several thousand pages of documentation
who is going to choose the latter?
This is a market that's being poorly served (maybe it's not big enough to justify investment in developing non-shitty products for them?) but blaming the users seems distasteful.
It’s still a crap show. I’m working on a beaglebone, i just decided to stay in the PRU for now, because connecting a timer to a DMA to spit bit patterns to a GPIO port without using a processor would involve connecting sections of the manual that are thousands of pages apart.
1) glue shit together
or
2) read several thousand pages of documentation
who is going to choose the latter?
This is a market that's being poorly served (maybe it's not big enough to justify investment in developing non-shitty products for them?) but blaming the users seems distasteful.