Re: Found: The perfect dev board

someprogr@xxxxxxxxx writes:

I think I just found the motherload here....

Im a computer scientist whos just beginning to get into EE as a hobby
and have been looking for development boards for quite sometime.

I don't know much about embedded programming or EE in general, but its
something im willing to explore.

I've been looking for the perfect board, one that has ethernet, usb
interface... some other nice features etc.

I recently came across MAKEs controller kit found here:
http://store.makezine.com/ProductDetails.asp?ProductCode=MKCONTRLLR

It had everything I needed for the price of 150. I kept searching
though.

Today I just stumbled across the SAM7-EX256 board from olimex:
http://www.olimex.com/dev/sam7-ex256.html

Isn't this guy unbelievable. It even has a TFT display and a
speaker....

Is this some kind of trick, or did I just find heaven here? Does
anyone else have this board and can comment? I'm 20 seconds away from
buying this.... Its everything i've been looking for. What do you guys
think? Should I buy it?

Not got that board, but have had other stuff from Olimex - I'm sure it
is fine - buy it!

--

John Devereux
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