On Nov 7, 2008, at 8:39 AM, Wouter van Ooijen wrote:

>> It's a bit sad that it has become less possible to "bootstrap"
>> yourself into microcontrollers based on your PC and parts from a junk
>> drawer, but...

> except for some higher-end uC that have an USB bootloader (IIRC Atmel
> ARMs) But the package is not exactly newbie-frendly..

or for that matter: Chips sold by third parties with serial (usually)  
bootloaders already built in.  Ardunio bare chips are about $6, PicAxe  
is in this category...

BillW

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