I will agree with that. I have never even looked at Kickstarter before, and only learned about Teensy early this year by accident. I have been using ChipKits so far. I have been a Microchip guy since the PIC16C54, despite working for Motorola / Freescale for 41 years.
I got some T3.2's and audio shields and started designing a music synthesizer. It didn't take too long before I ran out of processing power and I/O. Then the 3.6 beta happened.....this could be the ticket. I was anxious and sitting by the computer logged into KS when it went live.....how anxious.....Backer number R0002 kinda anxious.
I made a breadboard capable of accepting a T3.2 or a T3.6, plugged in a 3.2 and debugged everything. On the day before I left on a 2800 mile road trip the early reward T3.6 arrived. I plugged it in and within an hour the sweet sounds of success were flowing, so I packed it all up and headed south. You get weird looks sitting out on the beach at sunset with a laptop, a box covered with knobs, and a pair of speakers making some really strange sounds! Ditto, from the people next to us in one of the hotels who thought that aliens had landed.
I got an email from PJRC with a tracking number on the day I returned. It stated that more Teensys were on the way. Delivery date Monday Oct. 3. We live in rural West Virginia on a dirt road, and our mail is delivered by a private contractor in her own car. There are days where she doesn't even come down the road, especially in winter.....Imagine my surprise to find a box with 9 more Teensys in it this morning.
I don't need to worry about bricking my only board now, reflashing the bootloader in a hotel room with a crummy W10 laptop scared the bleep out of me. I can now make a bigger and badder breadboard, and maybe a real PCB.....wonder if a T3.5 will work in it, guess there's only one way to find out.
Thanks again for the heroic effort to bring a cool little board to those of us who like to play with such things, and not keep us waiting around for a board that never materializes, or doesn't work.