> The only
> thing I would like is a cable to go from the programming header to my
> breadboard. This is probably quite user-specific so I guess I can't
> blame Olin for not including one.

That and the PayPal shopping cart system I'm using makes it impossible to
add small options to a order.  I'm looking at alternatives, but PayPal is
the only one that doesn't charge a substantial monthly fee and that you
don't need to be a web guru to set up.  I would like a system where you can
buy various little items where I can supply the shipping weight for each
item, then the system totals up the shipping weight and decides what to
charge for shipping.  Or at least a global per-order shipping charge with
incremental per piece charges.  With PayPal, you have to specify a separate
shipping charge per item.  You can distinguish between the first and
additional quantity, but it is still per item.

This makes is unreasonable to sell little items like cables.  I can charge
$5 for the cable, but there is no way to explain to the system not to charge
additional shipping if you're alreay buying a USBProg, for example.

I'd like to offer a variety of accessories, but until I find a reasonable
shopping cart system this is unworkable.

> The USB driver worked just fine. I installed the software and it said it
> installed a driver, and that I should reboot. Me being me, I decided to
> see if it would work without rebooting (silly Windows).. it worked fine.
> YMMV.

The reboot is for the rest of the Embed Inc software, not the Windows
driver.  The software installation sets some environment variables in the
registry.  Things will work in any command window you create after the
install, but command windows opened before the install do not automatically
inherit the new environment variables, and the software will not work right
in those.  Unfortunately some commands will work and other will just appear
to sortof work.  It's easier to tell people to reboot than to try to explain
or deal with all the issues.  For example, if you ran PIC_PROG in a shell
window that was created before the install it would probably mostly work,
but error messages would look like a mess because it might not be able to
find the message files.

> The circuit board was hand-soldered. I have visions of someone,
> somewhere, with strained eyes and wrists.

The board was machine loaded, but apparently they screwed up something with
the SOT-23 transistors and some of them had to be reflowed by hand.  We had
to do a little work on some of the units as part of the final test
procedure.  I just looked it up the logs and you have unit #103, which had a
bad solder joint on Q12 fixed during final test.


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