26 Jun
2013
26 Jun
'13
5:19 p.m.
On 6/26/2013 6:02 PM, Jim Brain wrote:
It is for these reasons that I would not offer a PSU
kit. My apologies,
but I don't think I'd ever be comfortable in that situation.
The only power supply stuff I have seen has been Transformer Choke
Cap stuff. Switching stuff I leave to the Chinese clones.
Pragmatically, kits do not bring me joy in general. I
spend more time
helping folks debug them, and I charged less to sell them in the first
place. Ready made units require less support. I know that's heresy to
the folks on this list, but it is the truth. For every soldering guru
on here with an armful of databooks and a scope, there's hundreds of
people in this classic machine community who treat a electronics kit
like a "snap-tite" plastic model.
But then that is what all they sell 'plastic model' kits today.
Learn *Bla Bla Bla" with this flashing led kit.
FPGA's kits are turning out the same way looking at the DE0 & DE1
I have here. You want to do more -- Pay big $$$ for hardware description
to access USB and SD cards and we *Don't support 5V I/O logic any more *.
Still looking for a SD card FPGA interface -- low level needed.
(DE1 card)
I apologize for getting a bit off topic, though I hope
it's somewhat
informative.
Jim
Ben.
PS. Why all this wanting of old hardware in FPGA's nowadays? At one time
you could get C-64's free with other assorted junk in a box for $ 2.00