On Sun, Aug 28, 2005 at 11:08:20PM +0200, Wouter van Ooijen wrote:
> > Yes a good prototyping board would be very welcome.
> > As I couldn't find one,
> > I just build this prototype board (specially for JAL)
> > and although I used it only for a few weeks,
> > I'm very happy with it ;-) ;-)
> 
> I know Stef (and you know that I know, and ...), but this is *your*
> ideal of a protoboard. You remeber some time ago the piclist tried to
> agree on the ideal protoboard?

I do! I do!

I even prototyped the prototype board. You can find the designer here:

http://www.finitesite.com/d3jsys/picdesigner.html

I am eventually planning on placing a breadboard with permanently
installed I/O on the top of the Designer.

Stef doesn't have a bad concept. I kind of like the idea of a board
with lots of connectors. Also a standard daughterboard/jumper cable
concept isn't too bad either.

Question for Stef: Why did you only use it a few weeks?

I think the one thing I realized since our discussion 3 years ago
is that the ideal prototyping board would be a starter board that
lightly populated, but already had all of the pads for future expansion
in place.

The idea is as sound as it was during the "Furious Debates of 2002!".
Building infrastructure to start a project is a chore. Something that
facilitates rapid prototyping for early success would be the ticket.
The prototyper would of course have to double as a code dumper so that
finished project can be transferred off the prototyper.

BAJ
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