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Re:Lego breaks ground on first US manufacturing facility by amelius on Sunday April 23, 2023 @12:58PM (#35678003)
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.

Re:Lego breaks ground on first US manufacturing facility by seanmcdirmid on Sunday April 23, 2023 @01:02PM (#35678049)
Pretty sure if you aren’t buying the microcontroller wholesale and in quantity, it will cost more than a Lego in a typical set.
Re:Lego breaks ground on first US manufacturing facility by varjag on Monday April 24, 2023 @03:55AM (#35684816)
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