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Posted by Gordon McComb on November 15, 2006, 11:02 am
marialinderman@gmail.com wrote:
> I'm going to be leaving the country soon and I wanted to stock up on
> good kits that have everything in the box. I don't care all that much
> what it does, just that it's intermediate level and will make some good
> soldering practice and maybe even Micro controller programming. It
> would be great if it's under 100 dollars, and looks pretty decently
> cool. :) I've been recommend the AVR Butterfly, and I think I'm going
> to get that.....but it doesn't require any soldering so I'm looking for
> some other ones too.
The AVR does require soldering if you want to do anything with it other
than play with the built-in program. At a minimum, you need to solder on
some wires to add the programming port. You may also want to solder on
wires for the additional data ports.
-- Gordon
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> good kits that have everything in the box. I don't care all that much
> what it does, just that it's intermediate level and will make some good
> soldering practice and maybe even Micro controller programming. It
> would be great if it's under 100 dollars, and looks pretty decently
> cool. :) I've been recommend the AVR Butterfly, and I think I'm going
> to get that.....but it doesn't require any soldering so I'm looking for
> some other ones too.