I woulnd't say the Arduino has a monopoly on the hobbyist microcontroller market beyond excessive saturation at the bottom end (maybe I've just seen too many "use an Arduino to flash an LED" posts on Hack a Day). PICAXE and Stamp microcontrollers cater well to that particular market, too. Most projects I've seen use AVR or PIC microcontrollers directly, though.
benryves wrote:
I woulnd't say the Arduino has a monopoly on the hobbyist microcontroller market beyond excessive saturation at the bottom end (maybe I've just seen too many "use an Arduino to flash an LED" posts on Hack a Day). PICAXE and Stamp microcontrollers cater well to that particular market, too. Most projects I've seen use AVR or PIC microcontrollers directly, though.
The beginner hobbyist market, then, I'd claim. I can't tell you how many mechanical engineers I've heard want to use an Arduino for whatever inane automation task simply because it's the only microcontroller platform that they're aware of, when a PIC or even a simple jumble of 74-series gates would serve their purposes much much better.
  
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