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I'm looking forward to the following, in this order:
* new products!
* new website
* RSS feed for new products
* rss feeds for forums

My problem with shields (and I have several) is it's hard to know what pins they use and what ones they simply pass through. Then there are some, like SFE's zigbee shield, that don't pass all of the pins through- grr.

I'd much rather have a 3-wire or 4-wire interface.

paul wrote:If you still have the label to the BBB - it's printed on there. But who reads the fine print, I know?

I knew I'd seen it somewhere, but didn't remember where.

It's all good. I'm pretty happy with my RBBB and BBB now that I know how to use 'em

Apparently I can't RTFM:

"A: Change this serial port setting: Device Manager -> Com Ports -> USB Serial Port -> Port Settings -> Advanced button -> Set RTS On Close"

Paul- what about putting a note about this (and "black is ground, yellow is RX") on the "connect" product page?

Okay, this sounds weird. What I mean is the first time I power up my BBB or RBBB (I have one of each), I can use the Arduino compiler to upload the sketch. However, if I try uploading again, I get this: Binary sketch size: 2854 bytes (of a 14336 byte maximum) avrdude: stk500_getsync(): not in sync: ...

thanks for the update, Paul! I'm looking forward to your version of Sanguino. The RSS feed is just a smple XML format that allows someone to follow the forum without checking in constantly to look for new posts. You are using phpBB- here's one mod to allow RSS .. but there are plenty more (depending...

It'd be really nice if this forum had an RSS feed, or that you use a blog to post new items and news.

And I'd like a pony.