Just a microcontroller and USB gadget interface? Go look up prices for microcontrollers and usb fifo's and you'll see that $59 is not a bad price for a prebuilt unit. Sure you can buy a bare microcontroller for a few bucks but building the circuit and adding peripherals adds up fast.
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pej @ Jan 8th 2007 12:47PM
Just a microcontroller and USB gadget interface? Go look up prices for microcontrollers and usb fifo's and you'll see that $59 is not a bad price for a prebuilt unit. Sure you can buy a bare microcontroller for a few bucks but building the circuit and adding peripherals adds up fast.