<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Mykle,<div><br><div><br></div><div><div>Recently one of our out of town lurkers set the price at a prebuilt benito at around 23 bucks. </div><div>So I think thats the market rate for prebuilts and I will gladly assemble them for that. </div><div>The point of the dorkboard is to let people build their own and build 3-6 for the same price as a prebuilt one so I could ask my kid to quote you the assembly but I wont do it :).</div><div>The cheapest way of course is to do the induction where you get the board the programmer and assistance and community for $25 If I get enough interest I will do one towards the end of next month. </div><div>The board that you are looking at will require a programmer and the benito will work for that no mater what freeduino you choose. (IMHO the shield system is just stupid so thats not a board I would pick.) </div><div><br></div><div><div>You and I should sit down and look at production of the the speed vest. </div><div>A lot of answers to these questions would fall out of that discussion.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Don.</div></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br><div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>On Sep 3, 2008, at 4:48 PM, Mykle Hansen wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>hi all,<br><br>i'm gearing up for my next Arduino adventure, and<br>am faced with a choice: should i go Dorkboard? or<br>use the SparkFun Arduino Pro Mini?<br><br> <a href="http://www.sparkfun.com/commerce/product_info.php?products_id=8824">http://www.sparkfun.com/commerce/product_info.php?products_id=8824</a><br><br>... of course, apples to apples, i would use the Dorkboard<br>just to support the home team. although i do love the SparkFun<br>guys.<br><br>but what it comes down to is, i don't think i want to deal with<br>hand-soldering surface-mount chips. (i know i could do it<br>eventually, but i just don't love soldering that much.<br>maybe if i had a paste-stencil and one of those hot air<br>tools it would be easier, but i'm just one guy with a<br>weller and bad eyesight ...)<br><br>are there already-built Dorkboards out there, waiting to<br>be bought? from you? by me? or is it kit-only at this point?<br>or is it etch-your-own board and RTFM?<br><br>also, there is this programmer/loader puzzlement. the<br>Dorkboard interfaces with USB over Don's Benito 7g adapter<br>... are any Benitos built? or is that another project?<br><br>meanwhile, the SparkFun equivalent is this FTDI unit:<br><br> <a href="http://www.sparkfun.com/commerce/product_info.php?products_id=8772">http://www.sparkfun.com/commerce/product_info.php?products_id=8772</a><br><br>... but it turns out the drivers require my Mac to run Leopard --<br>weak! So that's another hassle I'd like to avoid ...<br>in my perfect world where everything is easy, i<br>never burn my fingertips, money grows out of my butt, etc.<br><br>-m-<br>_______________________________________________<br>dorkbotpdx-blabber mailing list<br><a href="mailto:dorkbotpdx-blabber@dorkbot.org">dorkbotpdx-blabber@dorkbot.org</a><br><a href="http://music.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/dorkbotpdx-blabber">http://music.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/dorkbotpdx-blabber</a><br></div></blockquote></div><br></div></div></div></body></html>