gramo said:
Please...
And what’s your favorite color Bill? Unicon USB Experimenter & Inchworm+ Upgrade? Want to buy a Mongoose with that? Are you on a commission, o no wait, your entitled to your recommendations because you own the products... whatever man, I'm tired of this old school debate.
It's a public forum, be prepared for public responses.
Hell no, I'd love to be a beta tester though! But seriously, everyone deserves to know what else is out there.
The world extends further than bit banging assembly & over priced wannabe breakout boards.
When asked about a good PIC programmer I recommend mine of course, and yes I make a comission as it's what I do. I design kits that I'd like to use/buy myself. I don't try to hard sell like you and why? It's like a religion to you, if someone wants to flash an LED you recommend a commercial BASIC compiler.
Why learn assembly, too much work? might have to study? Many people here are trying to learn something new and take off the training wheels.
Nothing teaches the inner workings of any micro better than learning a little assembly language.
A 14bit PIC has 35 instructions, most people can wrap their minds around it with a little guidance.
PS we all have our soapbox, you it BASIC & Proton and recently the PICKit2, MikeK8LH it's 1N7000 fets, Nigel assembly.
As for me well where to start I like Sketchup, iButtons/1-Wire
I think they're amazing, RS485 (you'll see it on many of my new designs) and PICs. I don't dislike BASIC, C or whatever, nor will I answer an Atmel question with a PIC response (unless it's an Atmel vs PIC question).
As for the Mongoose sure it's a simple robot chassis, theyre are hundreds of em. And they tend to stay in the robotics section, and I hope to sell scads of them. I thought it would be interesting to some folks to post the progress of the chassis, it's been through a dozen or so changes thanks to the suggestions by people on the forums here and is shaping into a hopefully nice kit.
And you're right it's a public forum.