In SX Microcontrollers, SX/B Compiler and SX-Key Tool, George Herzog wrote:

I wrote this because people tend to look first and almost entirely at the price rather than what is in the package.

Fluffy2 is useful if you are already a PIC programer, have parts lying around, and have been making boards.  You may not really need the Debug options.  I am sure that it will always be around.

But what people compare in advertisements or stores is a $69PIC programer [without software or books or etc.] to a $99 or $110 programer package.  Apples versus Oranges.  Parallax has made it so that you save money if you buy it all in one shot.

The PIC comes out cheaper on entry, but the newcomer doesn't know what is better.

There is always a tendancy to spend less if you don't know what you are buying - even if you cheat yourself.
(I have an 8051 programer with Chinese instructions that I may never use.  It was cheap!)

I have yet to build a Fluffy2, but I look into it as an interesting way to fully understand the unusal programing channel on the SX.

I suppose there is even some die-hards out there that will build a Fluffy3 [with USB?] perhaps, but that is the fun of DIY.

Summer is offically over today.  
I have university to teach tomorrow, so I may be posting a bit less.  I hope you will forgive me if I have been too much a prescence here lately.  Taiwan has been very hot 35 degrees C and two typhoons have kept me at home.


About the only other thing Parallax might do to make it better is to offer University students  [with appropriate verification] a student discount.  Maybe a once a year 'back to school' sale.  Maybe an on-going deal.  I just can't figure out out to verify the students as being real.

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