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ZIFduino

Posted by degroof

degroof

ZIFduino
April 14, 2008 11:34AM

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Ran across this yesterday: [www.instructables.com]

I guess the concept is that you can use the board for development and testing, then transfer the chip over to a custom board. Would that be of any interest?

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Forrest Higgs

Re: ZIFduino
April 14, 2008 02:31PM

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LOL! Zif sockets are terrifically expensive. I guess that I'm just super careful, but I've never had any trouble inserting and extracting 40 pin PIC chips literally hundreds of times out of a standard socket with a small, narrow-bladed screwdriver.

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degroof

Re: ZIFduino
April 14, 2008 03:06PM

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Yeah, I do the same thing. If it's a chip I know I'm going to swap out frequently, I'll double-socket it so that, even if I break a pin, I'm only out the price of a socket. I did this with the PICs on the Darwin boards, for example.

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Forrest Higgs

Re: ZIFduino
April 14, 2008 03:53PM

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Interesting! Hadn't thought about double socketing. Nice idea. smileys with beer

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ZachHoeken

Re: ZIFduino
April 14, 2008 04:34PM

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i could see how that would be useful, if you wanted to program multiple chips if you were selling a kit, or something of that nature.

day to day, it doesnt make much sense, especially since arduinos are self-programming =)

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Demented Chihuahua

Re: ZIFduino
April 17, 2008 07:34AM

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Steve,

Nice...double socketing. Much better!

I ziffed my programmer to make my life easier.

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