Hello Wouter,
the view you offered isn't so easy to understand for everybody. Someone
feels satisfied to spend hours to be able to solve a problem by oneself. I
my firm is a couple of programers  not able to unterstand to shorten their
program to be able to use the cheapest PIC (we don't produce milions of
pieces) is much expensive than to use C compiler and PIC that fits. It's the
same with equipment we use... programmers, emulators etc.. I don't need to
think what is wrong with my programmer being close to deathline... It's the
best way how to explain why the project is late...
Having microchips as a hobby, the situation is slightly (!) different. The
result I produce I will not sell to anybody.... It's like to paint pictures
for my own gallery only. I can't count spending hours there. My brother once
told me,  things you did and not able to sell are worthless. I don't think
so as well as you do - anyone can build your programmer looking at your
site.

Merry Christmas

Igor


OK, that is a figure. I guess the correct figure would require averaging
over N people, most of which would have spend a few hours or less, but a
few of them having spend many many hours. I have no idea what the
average figure would be.

Assuming

- half a day is 4 hours
- my Wisp628 build-and-tested wou have cost you $40 and half an hour of
your time
- you will never run into problems with this (at least not into more
problems than with my Wisp628)
- your programmer has cost you $5
- the choice between your programmer and buying Wisp628 is a break-even

The conclusion is that you value your (hobby) time at $35 / 3.5 = $10.
Does this feel about right?

Wouter van Ooijen

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