Dogboy's point seems to be that he is an EE and he is better than everyone, because he knows how to bend a toy, and make such a toy as well. And throw it out of the cot.

"The DIY community, for the large part, is made up of EE’s that understand what they’re doing and why."

Self important nonsense. I'll spare you my own examples of how when I was 8 I built my own treehouse out of prototyping board and logic gates.

Was the "self indulgent dead end" comment being ironic?

Sorry if this is bringing down the tone, but I don't think intellectual snobbery, or any kind of snobbery has any place in any kind of DIY scene.

The point here is that the re-appropriation of technology, is part of a wider social movement of DIY. DJing, hacking, circuit bending, wikinomics, graffiti, whatever you like.