At the risk of going off (my own 
) topic:
If you have a roadmap, why keep us in the dark about it instead of revealing it now? Perhaps knowing your plans would alleviate this type of question.
Apple doesn’t tell you about features of iPhone 8 when they are launching iPhone 7. But you know they are working on it, right? Same thing applies.
I will say two things. 1) The technology of Pokitto is mapped two generations ahead. 2) You will be making a good investment on the Pokitto because backwards compatibility. The LPC11U68 processor was a very very careful choice indeed.
Now lets concentrate on getting the first round out the door. I understand your interest, and I really value the feedback, but we must go step by step.
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I think the tabs will be quite useful. I would like to try using the Pokitto as a controller for one of the common “robot car” platforms. I could use the studs to secure the Pokitto to the base without depending on the plugged in header connection keeping things in place. In that case, I could also use breadboard jumper wires to make the header connections, allowing me more flexibility in wiring things up.
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The pins in the corners that hold the case together are hollow (I think they’re LEGO Technic pins). So you could run screws or studs down the centre of them to secure the Pokitto to a mount, even if the tabs weren’t there.
I’m not sure about the dimensions, but another possibility might be that this longer pin could be substituted to provide “snap in” mounting capabilities.
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Have been using the longer pins myself, they work really well in coupling Pokitto to other things
crude design for securing your black tophat to the green pokitto 2 3L pin and a 1x2 technic part (red)
Dude the arms and legs are awesome it’s one of the things that actually attracted me to the pokitto. You can do so many things with them I’m sure they will be useful in the future maybe for attaching other modules.
I can think of useless add-ons to personalize Pokitto, Mr. Potato arms and legs and hats and eyes lol
They give it personality and while I could do without them
I’d probably like to have the arms at least for a lanyard and they could be used as mounting brackets if you felt inclined.
Functionality wise they add a form of case expansion so keep.
As I’ve already mentioned, the corner pins that hold the case halves together are hollow, so you could run a lanyard through any one of them. The same goes for using the corner holes for mounting brackets.
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One thing we spoke about here is durability. I threw the Pokitto over my shoulder to the concrete floor at Maker Faire Bay Area about 20 times… did not break.
Turns out the “lego” structure is very good in absorbing the shock of the impact. The case will open a little bit, but the arms and legs and even the display stays intact. It works in a very similar way as the old Nokia phones with exchangeable covers. The case will snap open but nothing will break permanently.
By accident we may have actually designed a really durable case.
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Ok that’s pokitto abuse, and unfit pokitto parenthood, just send it to me and I’ll be a good foster parent to it.
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I don’t particularly like the arms, but the legs are cool. I was thinking of 3D printing an alternative case without those legs/arms, but I would need the OBJ file. Not sure if this was already discussed in the thread.
Well you can easily cut them off, there is material enough behind it. But…it is a nice feature of Pokitto.
It wasnt discussed if the cad files would be available. Might be a good idea to add them to thingiverse to increase popilarity. What would you say @jonne ? Oops just saw the other post regarding this. Never mind 
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The tabs were one of three things that were deciding factors in my getting into Pokitto! Factor 1 was the gpio headers. 2 was the shape and design with the tabs because I could easily see them being useful in construction of robotics with my Lego mindstorms systems components, and with the gpio available it just makes sense. And 3 was video games that I program myself.
You just can’t go wrong with a diy “Gameboy”. I grew up wishing my Gameboy could have done more. Been more. And now the Pokitto exists! I’m so excited.
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@Hanski proved this with his impressive Pokitto racer:
That picture would be much less cool if the Pokitto was an amputee.
(I am officially coining the term “amputee Pokitto” to refer to the ones that have had their limbs removed.)
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Some would rather say this is a body mod 
I prefer with the limbs, because it’s always easier to remove than to add in this case. Also it’s part of the whole Pokitto design in my humble opinion
True, the body dimensions are even in Lego :
I regret pasting ‘body mod’ into Google image search.
Some things cannot be unseen.
*wipes internet history*
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I’m sure you’ve seen worse, come on! 
Like a mutilated pokitto!