That's a cute joke. And it also brings to mind that coming to a conclusions about a hardware problem over mail or forum thread is like diagnosing an illness without a medical workup.. This wouldn't be an issue if they said, 'ship it to us and we'll evaluate it'. Their approach is, 'this is not our fault if you attached it to anything.' In this world they *could* ship you a dead unit and if you attached it to something, the problem is in your hands. They *could* have bad units that fail, but since you attached it to anything it's your problem. No, the micro wasn't taped as it was also plugged in. And it's also still functioning.
At any rate, I'm moving on from Edison. It's soaked up too much energy. I would suggest that Intel either uses their margins to beef up support. Or drop the price so burn out, regardless of cause, isn't worth the energy of triggering their support. 20 bucks should do it. That, or enable the PowerVR and Camera that would make it more functional.
Otellini once said they missed the boat on iPhone. And unless they do what they really don't want to do - make low margin chips - they'll miss IoT too.