Gameduino (or how a $5 chip can outperform an Amiga :( )

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I know this has been mentioned before, but some probably haven't heard of this yet... So here it is, an ATMega328 (a very cheap 8bit micro controller) based board that really shows the age of the Amiga Hardware.

On a bright note, if you fell in love with the Amiga because of how easy and fun it was to program, and write your own games... you will love it!

http://excamera.com/sphinx/gameduino/

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Get a Gameduino? Nah. $53 is a rip off for what you get. I'd much rather pay $25/$35 and get a Raspberry Pi:
http://www.raspberrypi.org/?page_id=2

I'm raspberry Pi's biggest fan, but the Gameduino is a totally open game platform, no need to spend a year learning posix and OpenGL just to make a blob move across the screen... Plug it in, program it and go

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Ooh, that's a sweet little unit! I'm *very* tempted to get one... I program the ATMega chips in work (although smaller ones than that - the 8535 being the most common), they're pretty nice to work with.

I have been nothing but impressed by the ATMega chips, they have to be the best 8bit chips ever made though my current uC of choice is ARM