Or more appropriately, when is a uC not the answer?
I mean yeah, there's tons of super simple stuff in which a uC would be overkill for today, but as prices come down and programming environments get more 'accessible'.....
I find microcontrollers fascinating, but I haven't played with any yet. I've done a fair bit of C programming actually, but all of it was in a unix environment and not for a uC. I also find a great deal of joy in putting together stuff the old fashioned way, with big and clunky through-hole components.
I guess I'm looking for reassurance that the uCs aren't going to kill off the old way of doing things, and that we'll all have BOTH available for many many years to come.
thx
-ph