Undermining the spirit of HN: By the time you’ve spent a few hours hacking away and bought any parts, that price is probably not too bad.

That's assuming you don't like hacking and would pay to not have to do it, which is generally not the case around here.

I’m think you can go further than that.

Days spent modifying cheap electronics is absolutely encouraged.

	▲	hackingonempty 5 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Buy the premade thing and hack something new.
	▲	seg_lol 5 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Cheap electronics are just the feed stock, the basis function for your new creation. Why start with raw matter when you can get fully formed matter for less.