First of all I was really happy that so many people showed up and got as far into their construction as they did.

27 people and only one dead board.

I now know that getting all of that done in under 3 hours was a little ambitious. (The pacing was initially based on the photo session at http://www.flickr.com/photos/7175086@N05/sets/72157604783725339/ which took 20 minutes from start to finish)

For those of you who were unable to finish the cable Jacob Hedwig has provided a clear picture of a working cable at

Introduction.

The Benito Board is an at90USB162 board intended for use in programming and communicating with microcontrollers which have serial based bootloaders.

Among those are the Phillips lpc21xx series ARM chips, the Dallas Semiconductor, DS500x family and Atmels using any number of STK500 compatible bootloaders.

I sent my son to his mom's with one of the USB Serial boards I built along with a breadboard, an RBBA a pile of resistors and an led array. I thought about this arrangement and decided that I would try to build a breadboard attached programmer that would not be dangling off the edge of the board and in the way.

I was so happy with the boards I did the other day that I decided to make some small boards for the ft232 so that aidan would have a programmer for his breadboard RBBA. I made 20 of these boards so if anyone wants one they can order the following parts to the group order.

A You use it.

Last week Eric (dr twist) and I got carried away and scored 100 Really Bare Bones Boards (rev A) from wulfden (http://www.wulfden.org/freeduino/freeduino.shtml) for $1.10 a board with shipping, along with the last group order which we ordered enough parts to make the 100 into "kits". In order to program the 168s I built a programmer around Dean Camera's "Buttload" (http://www.fourwalledcubicle.com/ButtLoad.php) butterfly based programmer and the 28 pin ziff socket that Paul Stoffregen (http://dorkbotpdx.org/wiki/PaulStoffregen) offered to loan us.

I was using the programming half of a a bulky prototype that I have been working on to program one of the mice from "Thing-a-day" Day 1 and I looked at the pile hanging precariously off of the coffee table and thought to myself.

"I need to just build one of these. "

http://www.circuit-fantasia.com/

I think I have a new mantra

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For all of my talk of the Arduino being to expensive to deploy I have yet to find its older brother priced anywhere near the $60 that the wiring folks talk about. Until now. I wish this had gone on sale when I was still employed. I bought one anyways.

http://www.maximumrobotics.com/store/p/881-Wiring-I-O-Board.aspx

Until November 30th there are about 20 some odd harmonicas being played prosthetically. There is no intelligence behind them but it looks like most of the the mechanism was custom machined and it is worth seeing because it is well done.

http://www.portlandart.org/newsite/