On Sun, Aug 18, 2002 at 08:12:02AM -0400, Olin Lathrop wrote:
> > $200 for a programmer that you know will work is cheap,
>
> Then just get the Microchip Picstart+ and be done with it.
>
> However, I think the problem is many hobbyists don't want to spend that kind
> of money.  They want something cheap, cheap, cheap, and are willing to spare
> no expense to get it <g>.  They find some flaky parallel port programmer
> schematic on the web and try to build it because it takes 1 transistor and 2
> resistors less than the next programmer design.  Then they get into trouble
> for a variety of reasons.  It was exactly such a case that started this
> discussion.

Olin, that's so on the mark. But I'm sure if I remember if you offered your
opinion on the prototyping board issue. Do you think that hobbyist can benefit
from having more project infrastructure support? Especially if that support
can be purchased in that $100 ballpark for the Developer's PS+ or the Warp-13?

I just wanted to thank you for bring several key points to the discussion:

* Sometimes it's worth a bit of money to save a ton of time.
* Hobbyists only need to focus on a small subset of the available PIC family.
  I thought that your list was right on the mark.
* As noted above a fully assembled product can relieve quite a few headaches.

BAJ

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