On Jan 26, 2006, at 8:11 PM, Byron A Jeff wrote:

>> And what would be on the ideal "educational" board for that
>> target anyway?
>
> Dude! You may not remember the massive thread of prototyping
> boards we discussed a while back.

I remember it fondly.

> The only thing that was agreed upon was that there
> was no concensus.

It's a (subtly) different question.  I was hoping the answer would
be better defined :-)

Although, I'm a bit shocked how well the AVR 'butterfly' board fits
the description I built up.  It's got:

Bootloader and Jtag program download.
120 Segment LCD display (not standard, but...)
Piezo element.
rs232 level converter
5-way joystick (switch)
Light and temp sensors.
Headers for expansion.
4Mbit serial "dataflash" external memory.

And it sells for $20.  I think it would be awful difficult to
match that functionality for that price, even making your own
PCB, using all surplus parts, and doing the assembly yourself.
On top of that, the software it comes with is pretty neat and
serves as a general intro to the sorts of things that are possible.

BillW
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