Byron A Jeff wrote:

> > I hope this doesn't sound selfish or anything but that is pretty much
> > describing my V5 Experimenters kit.
>
> Not selfish at all. In fact I wish you would have said something a couple of
> week ago. And at $86 USD it's in the price range that I've been talking
> about. I generally don't fuss at you as much as I do Wouter because you'll
> announce items as they come along, like the Fobbit for example.
>
> The only real difference between it and the Designer is that all the I/O
> comes mounted. And that it still seems to be targeted as a full fledged
> programmer.

Hi Byron,

It's quite good for code development too. I have set aside 1K of ROM
that is there to simulate a 16F84, or use it for 16F87x code. The
Windows interface downloads the assembled hex code and can be run and
halted with a simple mouse click. It also accepts the code from the
BASIC compiler I created (although it's only a simple beginner tool).
All PORTA and PORTB pins are available. The UART is already connected to
the PC and can be used with any terminal program for testing. Expanding
a design would make better use of PORTC/D/E if a 40 pin chip was used.

The $US86 would be a whole lot cheaper if the 3V SMPS and 32K EEPROM
weren't used for portabillity. The price would drop to around $US65.
Bear in mind, that price is for VERY LOW purchase quantities of kits. In
high volume, no doubt that could come down a whole lot more and would
ultimately reflect the profit margin wanted. In my case, bugger all :-)

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Best regards

Tony

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mailto:sales@bubblesoftonline.com

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