Based upon this article were the retail costs of a cheap flickering LED bulb is approaching the single dollar mark, the cost increase to use a proper AC/DC converter could be orders of magnitude more expensive (at a rough minimum).
Honestly it's starting to feel like a most cost effective long term solution is to build homes with a master AD/DC converter (or several depending on sq/ft) and simply wire 12v outlets and light fixtures. The energy savings of swapping all incandescents or compact florescence bulbs with cheap LEDs with cheaper power converters is starting to scare me knowing just how shoddy and fire prone some of these power converters can be.
> including some that the CEO owns and they lease from him
Did you see the part of the filing where, in case of death or incapacitation in the next ten years where the CEO is unable to fulfill his duties, a group of two board members _and_ his wife will select the next CEO, and if those named board members are also not available anymore then his wife will solely pick the two board members who will pick the next CEO with her, and if _she_ is unavailable then the estate of the CEO and his wife will pick the next CEO?
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I've never seen a company like this transfer to successive control via the private estate of the CEO in case of a vacancy. There's a lot of WTFs in here.
> The guy should 100% get more credit, and if this happened to me I would always be a little hurt about it, but at the same time, would it be a big deal if it had never extended past a thesis somewhere?
That's not the argument. He's not upset Arduino was a huge success, nor is he all that upset that he is not involved with Arduino (as far as I can tell from this article, as it's written very professionally). The argument is that there is a rather significant fight between the co-founders of the Arduino project about who owns what of the Arduino brand. This article paints a picture that in reality, the product behind the brand was essentially ripped off of someone else's hard work with very little contributed back to the original project. I don't think anyone wouldn't start to feel rather frustrated if someone forked their open source project, made it hugely successful (while complying with licenses and other conditions, but without directly contributing back) and then started fighting within themselves over who "started the project all on their own".
Honestly it's starting to feel like a most cost effective long term solution is to build homes with a master AD/DC converter (or several depending on sq/ft) and simply wire 12v outlets and light fixtures. The energy savings of swapping all incandescents or compact florescence bulbs with cheap LEDs with cheaper power converters is starting to scare me knowing just how shoddy and fire prone some of these power converters can be.