Personally, if I had seen this before I built my Tait-style programmer when
I was getting started with PICs, I would have gone for it, being used to the
MC68HC12 Eval board as a development environment (no big difference in
concept).

But that's just me.

--Brendan
----- Original Message -----
From: "Daniel Rubin" <dan@DESIGNDEVICES.COM>
To: <PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU>
Sent: Wednesday, June 26, 2002 1:00 PM
Subject: Re: [AD]: PIC16F877 Boot Loader Kit (International Shipping)


> Rip Off... very interesting take on this?  I set the price for the kit at
> what it would cost to purchase all the components single quantities.  If I
> sold 1000 a week I could probably sell these kits for $13 or $14 and do it
> full time.  But that is not going to happen.  I don't want to waste
> bandwidth on this thread, but I have to at least defend my kit from the 2
> messages to the list stating this thing is a rip off..
>
> At Digikey:
>
> PIC16F877/20: $9.88
> MAX232: $1.60
> Resonator: $.81
> LM7805: $.59
> Reset Switch: $.49
> Batter Clip: $.29
> All other stuff: $.50
>
> That's just over $14.  If you add $5 for a serial cable (I dare you to
find
> one cheaper at your local computer store) that totals $19.
>
> If you did buy all of this from Digikey you would also have to add $5
> handling fee to the order since it totalled under $25.

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