Greetings, Oops I accidentally changed the subject line. sorry about that. I hope it is back to the original now.
William On Nov 29, 2:00 pm, William <[email protected]> wrote: > 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.
