Ed Edmondson wrote: > Enclosed is a very rough cut & paste spec I have assembled from all the > applicable comments. Look this over and e-mail me your comments so I can > firm up a real spec. I am really making an attempt to get something usable > and worth while for the professional, hobbyist, and student. A lot of these > are great suggestions. We need to start putting them in a semi permanent > form. It looks to me like a lot of them are mediocre suggestions. By which I mean, suggestions that will be great for only a few people and useless for the majority, and things that are easy enough for a person to wire up on their own. I mean, how much trouble is it really to wire up an EEPROM or an extra voltage regulator? But that space (and cost) is just wasted if your application doesn't happen to need those. How about having your original features plus a prototype area? The only suggestions I thought were of very general applicability were the ICD/ICSP connectors and the EIA-232 interface. And I may be biased in the latter case because about 2/3 of the projects I build use a serial interface. Some people I know rarely use them.