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The pre-Arduino days were just expensive. I was using HC11 development boards quite a bit, and when I did something wrong, it would burn a hole in my pocket.
by shortoncash 12y ago
The pre-Arduino days were just expensive. I was using HC11 development boards quite a bit, and when I did something wrong, it would burn a hole in my pocket.
Also, good books or people who knew what they were doing were hard to come by. This went for software development too. A book would cost me $30-$50, a development board would cost $80, there were no reviews to know whether what I was buying was even worthwhile.
Kids these days have it really, really good. I'm jealous of them.
- joezydeco 12y agoThe development boards were crazy expensive, too. I was an early developer on the TI OMAP1, we had a number of EVK boards that TI lent us to to get the BSP up and running. I recall they were charging $7,000 each for these things and you could only get them if you had a serious inside channel with a TI FAE and promised big orders later. I thought Pandaboard was a great leap forward (especially for TI). We've taken 2 or 3 more since then.