Feature Request / Suggestions
Kevin Wood
Posts: 1,266
A couple of months ago I purchased a RadioShack WAM Kit, have been having fun with it, and think it is the "sleeper kit" of the bunch. That being said, I had a couple of ideas for improvement, and wanted pass them along for consideration.
1. Please add a simple on-off slider switch to the HomeWork board. It would make prototyping circuits a bit easier, especially when using a power adapter. The BoE switch wired as On-Off-Off would allow the use of current parts inventory.
2. Consider combining the "What's a Microcontroller" course with the "Basic Analog and Digital" course. The parts list is so close, and the circuits so similar, that combining the 2 would offer several benefits. It would give the user a bit more electronics theory (the manuals would be combined), and would mean a cost savings for Parallax with lower inventory and production costs (one parts kit, one manual, man hours for production). This would be an across the board change, not just for the RadioShack Kit.
Thanks.
1. Please add a simple on-off slider switch to the HomeWork board. It would make prototyping circuits a bit easier, especially when using a power adapter. The BoE switch wired as On-Off-Off would allow the use of current parts inventory.
2. Consider combining the "What's a Microcontroller" course with the "Basic Analog and Digital" course. The parts list is so close, and the circuits so similar, that combining the 2 would offer several benefits. It would give the user a bit more electronics theory (the manuals would be combined), and would mean a cost savings for Parallax with lower inventory and production costs (one parts kit, one manual, man hours for production). This would be an across the board change, not just for the RadioShack Kit.
Thanks.
Comments
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Thanks·for the feedback. We’re always eager to hear from our customers and many times the feedback received is applied to new revisions.
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About the HomeWork Board the main request we used to receive was increasing the size of the onboard voltage regulator. We introduced this improvement in the Rev C revision which would take some time to get in the stores.
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The next popular requests are making a USB version and the power switch. We will see what we can do. It’s easier for us to introduce improvements in the BOE but to keep the retail pricing really down on the HomeWork Board we’re more conservative there.
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Please keep sending us any comments.
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Aristides Alvarez
Education and Technical Support Manager
aalvarez@parallax.com
Parallax, Inc. www.parallax.com