[amelius]

That might be true, but it's still insane that a LEGO brick costs more than a small microcontroller which requires like 1000x the engineering effort if not more.

The free market is clearly failing here.

[seanmcdirmid]

Pretty sure if you aren’t buying the microcontroller wholesale and in quantity, it will cost more than a Lego in a typical set.

[varjag]

At the production scale and yields both for low end microcontrollers and LEGO bricks, the costs are largely material-bound as engineering is amortized over tens of millions units