As Michael Holzt wrote: > > No idea about it. Personally, I don't mind soldering SMDs so I > > see no advantage in advertising something as ``does not use SMD > > parts''.
> For me the main advantage seems to be that no special USB chip is > needed. Well, that depends. The FT245 chips are very handy, and you've got pseudo-TTY drivers for them readily around in all operating systems. Of course, they are around EUR (probably also USD) 6 per device for end-users. OTOH, Matthias Weißer's USBisp is more than just an ISP device: you could use it as an universal USB-attached controller subsystem if you want, like a sensor or data logger. But that's getting off-topic. > > Too bad the author(s) didn't simply approach the avrdude-dev list > > to get their patch integrated and maintained. > I will contact the author, and see what he thinks about integrating > that part. I would also do the maintenance part, but for this i > would first need to build the device (and i'm lacking time right > now). That would be cool. I'm not sure (didn't look at their patch yet), but somehow it appears they've solved the libusb integration before me. So I wasted a bit of time because I had to re-do it for the JTAG ICE mkII connectivity. -- cheers, J"org .-.-. --... ...-- -.. . DL8DTL http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-) _______________________________________________ avrdude-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/avrdude-dev
