You can get programming adapter sockets for both chips for about $9 each. http://www.ebay.com/itm/271973284613
http://www.ebay.com/itm/152444697107 And for the cpld, it would be easy to wire up the programmer and a 5v supply via breadboard. That leaves the flash. Instead of the bare tsop adapter above, which would require another adapter to the programmers dip40 zif socket, there are other kits for $30 that adapt to dip40 to go into programmers. And/or there are programmer kits that already include a tsop48 adapter too. http://www.ebay.com/itm/331991622286 http://www.ebay.com/itm/232365429018 So it's easy enough to make the physical connection to program both chips. But I don't know off-hand if the TL866 programmer happens to support this flash chip. If your programmer does support the flash chip, then it would be easy enough to do. I would not trust the data in a writeable chip that has been handled loose, soldered no less, while not part of a circuit that kept the write enable pin nailed to the gnd pin. You couldn't test the final result, which makes a problem when it doesn't work for the buyer. Did they corrupt it with static while handling or soldering? Or overheat while soldering? Is their M100 100%? Did you actually send out a corrupt chip? That can result in some bad feelings on one or both sides. Then again, you could program and mail out bare chips for little more than the cost of the chip. A couple bucks. There is practically no labor involved once you have the programmer set up the first time. So if someone claims it doesn't work and it seems to be the programming, you could just send them, even expect them to buy, another chip. Same as when you buy the blank new chips. If one doesn't work, you just have to buy another. They can't warranty them. So really it might be fine. Then the problem is just, do enough people want kits to justify setting up this alternative workflow? If it's one guy, you could simply build a complete rex in less time and effort than getting those programming adapters, figuring out how to use them the first time. Also, simply packaging that tsop chip so that the legs survive mailing is tricky. They came to me in a huge fiberglass tray. You could maybe saw out chunks of that tray to hold one or a few chips? Or you would have to actually make some kind of special packaging by hand. Unless you managed to get your chips in cut-tape packaging instead of trays. The cpld you could probably get away with simply taping it to a card. But those tsop legs have to basically be suspended so nothing touches them on all sides. That could end up being some labor right there. Mailing the complete rex is trivial. -- bkw On Oct 4, 2017 9:18 PM, "Josh Malone" <[email protected]> wrote: > Programmed kits are not an option, since you have to assemble the board to > program it :) A standalone flash and cpld programmer would be prohibitively > expensive for such a small run. This would be for assembled, programmed, > and tested units only. > > On Oct 4, 2017 6:28 PM, "Lee Olivares" <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Personally interested in a kit of parts and a flashed ROM if such an >> option were to present itself. >> >> I hit the form for a pair of units, since that's what I'd originally >> wanted from the M100 store ages ago. >> >> On Wed, Oct 4, 2017 at 2:41 PM, Daryl Tester < >> [email protected]> wrote: >> >>> On Wed, 4 Oct 2017 13:18:56 -0400, Josh Malone wrote: >>> >>> I'll send the form URL one more time in case it's gotten buried in >>>> peoples' email >>>> >>>> https://goo.gl/forms/Kr4YgaskVhMCuzxz1 >>>> >>> >>> +1'd. (and thanks for that Josh, it saved me having to find it). >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Regards, >>> Daryl Tester >>> Handcrafted Computers Pty. Ltd. >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> >> - Lee >> - 909.437.0250 <(909)%20437-0250> >> - Destroying technology problems. >> >
