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• I looked at the specs for this when I first saw it earlier this week. Pretty impressive and complete. This is a very affordable turnkey system to learn microcontroller techniques.

  It certainly brought back some memories about one of my first computers. Back in the day, my KIM-1 was pretty slick, and taught me the basics of bare-metal, bare-knuckle coding. Back then, we didn't have C or BASIC to code with! All I had was the 7-seg LED output and the keypad. Instruction-load-data-load (repeat as necessary).

  Man, I am _so_ tempted to get this, but I have enough little computers kicking around to play with. I really ought to blow the dust off my 2nd gen LEGO programmable brick.

  Posted by: clvrmnky on August 19, 2006 at 8:39 AM

• Agreed. *dusts off his LEGO RCX v1.0*

  Posted by: Shadyman on August 19, 2006 at 6:01 PM

• i want that EasyPIC3 so bad, i'm going to get it once i get into PIC programming in colege. it sucks but i have to restart @ DC Fundamentals and have to go step by step until i get to the level i'm at in real life.

  Posted by: SonicReducer on August 20, 2006 at 3:40 PM

• Sonic, you'll love having that board when you get to sequential circuits. There were some assignments I had that took 20+ hours to do at the gate level and I reproduced in 20 minutes with a micro and demo'd both when I had to show them to the TA.

  Posted by: Oracle1729 on August 20, 2006 at 6:52 PM

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