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Just a few weeks ago, I availed the PCB order service offered by http://dorkbotpdx.org/. The price is US $2 per square inch of Printed Circuit Board or PCB and you are going to receive three copies of each PCB design. There is no setup fee and that makes the service very cheap. Shipping within US is free (am i right?) but the international shipping is not so cheap if you are going to avail the service for a single small PCB design.
Want to learn real digital hardware design? You might want to consider Field Programmable Grid Array or FPGA. There are a lot of FPGA learning kits available today. Some are specially designed to target developments of commercial projects which are, of course, very expensive. Some are a little bit price friendly specially for students and FPGA newbies (like me).
If you are an AVR fan, you must be familiar with most of Atmel’s AVR development tools: STK500, AVR Studio, AVRISP, AVR TJAGICE, AVR JTAGICE mkII, AVRISP mkII, STK600, etc. But there is one Atmel AVR development tool that provides ISP programming, High Voltage Programming, and debugging which comes in small form, beautiful box, and cheap price.
The development tool that I am talking about is the AVR Dragon.
The MSP430 family of Texas Instruments is one of the most popular 16-bit microcontroller families because of its performance, architecture, and ultra low power consumption. Just recently, I received my eZ430-F2013, a USB Stick Development Tool for MSP430. This includes an MSP430 USB stick, IAR Embedded Workbench (Kickstart Version) IDE, and a CD-ROM containing related software and documentation. [Read more...]
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