On Sat, Aug 10, 2002 at 08:02:53AM -0400, Byron A Jeff wrote:
> 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.

Oops! I forgot number 2:

It doesn't juswt have to be for beginners. While the documentation/software
integration will be targeted to new users, the Designer itself should be
useful to us as experienced developers too. I mean how can you answer questions
about a product that you yourself don't use? Or do a project where once you've
done the first 2 or three projects you outgrow it so you have to get something
else?

And there's a short #3: It's not going to be a kit. No assembly required.
Just take it out of the box, plug it in, and get to work.

And that last feature alone will separate it from the pack.

BAJ

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