>The primary purposes are create a ready to use
> development environment and to standardize the base so that everyone that
> has one of these units can be assured of a base set of I/O devices when
> developing or supporting a project.

Actually I thought it was a little more altruistic than that :)

It seemed to start out from Kieran's difficulties getting a programmer
working, and someone came up with the idea of having a kit we could
recommend to beginners.

It was to be pre-built so that there would be no solder splashes, dry joints
etc to stop the hardware working, and someone has the facilities to do this
as a pay back for help they have had from the list.

It would have a fixed configuration so that everyone knew the function of
each available pin on the micro, and what peripheral it is connected to.

It would have a number of sexy peripheral items to experiment with, already
provided so there is no difficulty with adding hardware to experiment, and
the owner can therefore leap straight in and learn software techniques for
driving the different items.

A CD of useful software, tutorials, and example programs would be provided.

These factors would allow all the more experienced folk on this list to
provide positive advice to assist in getting working code, without working
in the dark about the physical details of the hardware and how it was built.

Have I managed to sum up the goals ?

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