- Fri May 01, 2015 8:25 pm
#181701
Hi. My name is Ned, and I got sucked into buying the Microchip Pic32 "Starter Kit".
"Hi Ned."
Ever since I opened the box a couple of weeks ago, I've been trying to find a way to make some use of that board. What I'm looking for is a breakout board that will accept the Hirose FX10 connector - the Edison breakout block here is *so* close! After days of searching, I found exactly one vendor who sells the board I'm looking for, and they are in Italy. The price of that simple board + shipping comes to over $75US.
With the Edison board available here, the die is nearly cast... couldn't Sparkfun produce a similar breakout board for the Pic32 SK board - for a reasonable price?
My fear is that the demand may not be there to make such a product worth while, although, during my search, I encountered the traces of many other similarly lost souls.
"Hi Ned."
Ever since I opened the box a couple of weeks ago, I've been trying to find a way to make some use of that board. What I'm looking for is a breakout board that will accept the Hirose FX10 connector - the Edison breakout block here is *so* close! After days of searching, I found exactly one vendor who sells the board I'm looking for, and they are in Italy. The price of that simple board + shipping comes to over $75US.
With the Edison board available here, the die is nearly cast... couldn't Sparkfun produce a similar breakout board for the Pic32 SK board - for a reasonable price?
My fear is that the demand may not be there to make such a product worth while, although, during my search, I encountered the traces of many other similarly lost souls.