Olin Lathrop wrote:
> We plan on making this firmware/driver/software available for free for
> non-commercial use and charge $1000 per VID/PID combination for commercial
> use.  The USBProg PIC programmer is built on this framework.  The
> firmware/software exist now, but hasn't been packaged up all nice yet.
> 
> So is this for personal use or for a commercial product?

A bit of both, actually. I'm hacking together a homebrew 'mood light' out of a 
couple of RGB LEDs, and I thought it would be a decent project to get back 
into the 'swing of things' - it's been a good few months since I've written 
any code for LibUSB, or the Microchip USB framework, and I wanted to do 
something simple first. Of course, it's not simple when you've got three LEDs 
and only two PWM channels. But the 4550 does have four programmable timers and 
full interrupt support, so it shouldn't be hard to squeeze three PWMs out of 
it with a bit of creative programming.

The other project is a low-volume device that reads floppy discs at the flux 
transition level. It's basically meant to allow 'odd format' discs to be read, 
analysed and (where required) copied. There are a lot of 'vintage' computers 
out there and not a lot of copies of install discs and the like. Problem being 
that PC floppy controllers can't generally copy these discs. So the obvious 
solution is a box that can read and write discs at the lowest level possible. 
This is the 'big thing' that I REALLY don't want to screw up. The HDL code is 
all done, I just need to build up a prototype, write the software and squash 
the inevitable bugs.

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