On Sun, 2007-01-28 at 12:05 -0500, Olin Lathrop wrote:
> Wouter van Ooijen wrote:
> > Maybe
> > because for a hobbyist (large part of my customers) the 'clumsyness'
> > of a DIP40 does not matter much,
> 
> That's surprising to me.  When I'm building a one-off I'm working a lot as a
> hobbyist.  I just don't like the physically big parts.

But Olin, you are experienced. When I was first starting off I'd choose
the 40pin parts since I had NO idea how many pins I'd end up needing.

Often I'd use nowhere near enough pins to warrant the 40pin part, but
that didn't matter as a hobbyist because size and the cost difference
between 40pin parts and lesser parts wasn't enough to worry about.

These days I do as you do and usually proto with a 28 pin part. The only
reason I've needed to go for a bigger part lately was RAM or EEPROM
size. To date I only have two projects that "needed" a 40pin part, one
needed all 33IOs, the other around 28IOs.

TTYL

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