Greetings, There are a couple of things we can learn from the success of the Arduino: 1) folks are willing to pay a little extra for a pre- programmed chip with the bootloader, 2) folks are willing to purchase a USB or RS232 level-shifter separately.
Thankfully, most modern OS's have built-in support for the 3 or 4 popular USB level-shifter chip-sets. I've also had good luck with buying very inexpensive clones of cell-phone cables, such as the Nokia CA-42. If I were selling a product, I'd go with a bootloader, and a socketed cpu if possible. And I'd include line items in the catalog for programming cables and also pre-programmed chips. And my PCB would have the same simple serial/programming connector as the Arduino boards. William -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "jallib" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/jallib?hl=en.
