I have been on a bit of a spending spree lately … I thought I would share what I have been buying as it comes in and then work it into my development plans.

My first items were some prototyping supplies from a place called – Proto Advantage

http://www.proto-advantage.com

They have a good selection of stuff and prices are pretty reasonable

Products

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Vacuum Pen (TLVACPEN)
Premium Jumper Wires 6″ M/M Pack of 10 (WRMM10)
Premium Jumper Wires 6″ F/F Pack of 10 (WRFF10)
Magnifier 10x – Illuminated With High Power White LEDs (TLMAG01)
Deluxe Test Lead Set (TL-22)
Banana to Minigrabber Set (TL-12)
Solder Paste 0.5cc 63/37 Sn/Pb No Clean (SLD005CC-NC-PB)
Solder Paste Dispensing Needle Kit – 11 piece (DISPNDLEKIT1)
ESD Electronics Tweezers (TWESD-15)
TSOP-54 (II) (0.8 mm pitch, 10.16 mm body) PCB and Stencil Kit (PA0210-KIT)
PQFP-208 (0.5 mm pitch, 28 x 28 mm body) PCB and Stencil Kit (PA0202-KIT)

So you can probably tell from some of those items that I want to start experimenting with doing my own surface mount components for prototyping.

The second batch of items to arrive were some AVR XMega128 dev boards I recently acquired from ALVIDI.

The ones I picked up were the AL-XAVRB V2.0

These are nice boards at a very reasonable price – approx $45. Looking forward to see how I can integrate these into some of my co-processor based designs.

128K Flash, 8K SRAM, 2K EPROM, MicroSD socket and 16 or 32MB SDRAM

Still working on my follow up posts about RAM, STORAGE and NETWORK

Monday, February 21st, 2011 @ 3:08 pm //cmxp, Apple II Hardware, RAM, SPI, Ubercard
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