On Sat, Aug 10, 2002 at 03:22:42AM +0100, Benjamin Bromilow wrote:
> Without wanting to sound naive, have we thought of looking at or asking what
> beginners want in a PIC kit? As much as the "Developer" is pushed forwards,
> if it's not what newbies want, we're eliminating a problem that never
> existed.

Well there's two issues here:

1) Beginner's lack the experience to know what they want or need. Most of the
time their criteria is limited to "I want to program a PIC." and "I don't want
to spend a lot of money." We've been on that end of the development cycle.
So I think it's perfectly valid to have more experienced developers define
the design criteria.

> I expect most would be happy with a reliable, cheap and simple kit that
> initially allows them to demonstrate a programmed PIC flashing a LED etc
> etc.

The only criteria on your list worth discussing are "simple kit". We have a
unique opportunity to offer something that isn't a kit. So it doesn't have
to be simple because the user isn't going to have to assemble it.

> I do agree, however, that making it modular (through a wide bus) makes
> sense so that when they know that that works they can move onto more
> complicated development projects.

I think we tabled that discussion a week ago. Whatever we end up with will
have an I/O expansion connector.

BAJ

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