23 Aug
2012
23 Aug
'12
8:27 p.m.
On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 9:13 PM, Eric Smith <eric at brouhaha.com> wrote:
Tony Duell wrote:
I've built several kits from Vince Briel and Bob Armstrong over the
past 15 years - I've got source, schematics, GAL equations, and I
usually buy bare boards and source my own components and burn my own
programmable devices (ROMs, MCUs, and logic devices) for them.
-ethan
I prefer kits for many reasons : They normally come with adequate
documatation.
You must be finding different kits than I see around here. Most of them
I've seen in the last 15 years have a pre-programmed code-locked
microcontroller with no source code, so all you can learn by building the
kit is soldering skills.