[alxlaz]

Oh, no, this was super common. When the Arduino (and, soon afterwards, the Pi) were launched, for several years, about 20% of my time was spent explaining higher-ups why there's a very wide gap to cross between a junior's "I can control a motor with Arduino in 30 minutes" and "We can manufacture this and make a profit and you can safely ship it to customers".

Don't get me wrong, the Arduino is one of the best things that ever happened to engineering education. Back in college I had to save money for months to buy an entry-level development kit. But it made the non-technical part of my job exponentially harder.

[HeyLaughingBoy]

Ha. Try telling a customer that even though he's prototyped his machine with three arduinos (he used three because he couldn't figure out how to do multitasking with just a single one...) in a couple of weeks, it will be a $100k project to spin up a custom circuit board and firmware to do the same thing. And no, we can't reuse the code he already wrote.

[sigh]