On 1/27/06, William Chops Westfield <westfw@mac.com> wrote:
>
> 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

Yes I think this is really good value. It is also well supported under
Linux and FreeBSD.

I think the US$29 Silicon Labs C8051F064 demo board is also a good
value. It does not have LCD but it does have USB based JTAG
programmer and debugger and it is USB powered.

Regards,
Xiaofan

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