Re:Adafruit's Trinket
by slowdown on Friday September 06, 2013 @04:41PM
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Many people don't find this exciting. But I am excited indeed. You know why? Because to program an Atmel Microcontroller, you need a 'programmer' whose selection itself is fairly confusing for newbies (USB/Serial/etc) and costs as much as $20 for a good one. This one instead is just plug and play, and that's awesome :)
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The Arduino platform has already largely solved that, though. Almost all of their products (besides a few "Pro" models which are TTL-serial only) have USB ports on board.
Re:Adafruit's Trinket
by chad_oliver on Friday September 06, 2013 @08:45PM
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Yes, but (at least in New Zealand) they're more than the $20 threshold mentioned above. So you're effectively buying a microcontroller plus a programmer.