My opinion is that it's a valuable tool in some circumstances and that
giving people who don't know the full stack of EE from silicon to software
the ability to put projects together is a good thing.  Obviously it's
anyone's right to disagree on either count.


On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 12:48 PM, Michael Watterson <mike@radioway.org>wrot=
e:

> On 20/09/2011 16:57, James Nick Sears wrote:
> > I think you just said it's quite a lot for the money.  Unless you
> typically
> > work for around the minimum wage.
>
> No, because invariably writing the SW takes longer and several expensive
> shields are needed for what can be a couple of cheap chips on your
> prototype board.
>
> Also you'll spend hours trying to get a suitable box for it.
>
> PIC main controller + USB to PC + 433MHz RX + I2C slave based PIC RDS
> encoder + LCD + IR TX + IR 38KHz OOK RX + FM Stereo TX
>
> http://www.techtir.ie/node/1003804
>
> Would have taken longer, more expense and bigger box with an A.
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