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Title: digikey raising prices?
Post by: cooldog on December 22, 2009, 08:21:20 PM: i just want to check if this is correct...

the programmer quotes in the $50 robot tutorial at $34 from digikey. has gone up to $58?!? i checked this price not long ago and it was still $34. dones anyone know why it would raise that much?

http://search.digikey.com/scripts/DkSearch/dksus.dll?lang=en&site=US&WT.z_homepage_link=hp_go_button&KeyWords=ATAVRISP2-ND&x=27&y=17 (http://search.digikey.com/scripts/DkSearch/dksus.dll?lang=en&site=US&WT.z_homepage_link=hp_go_button&KeyWords=ATAVRISP2-ND&x=27&y=17)
Title: Re: digikey raising prices?
Post by: Razor Concepts on December 22, 2009, 08:26:15 PM: Thats weird, but Mouser still has em for $34 at least.
Title: Re: digikey raising prices?
Post by: SmAsH on December 22, 2009, 08:30:02 PM: Yeah, i noticed that too. Instead i just bought the STK500 for $30.
Title: Re: digikey raising prices?
Post by: cooldog on December 22, 2009, 08:34:14 PM: mousers is $38.52

do you have a search # for that? i searched it and the prices were not anywhere near $30
Title: Re: digikey raising prices?
Post by: SmAsH on December 22, 2009, 08:42:17 PM: Ebay.
Title: Re: digikey raising prices?
Post by: Razor Concepts on December 22, 2009, 08:59:21 PM: Those aren't legitimate AVR STK500s, those are just some random knock-offs.
Title: Re: digikey raising prices?
Post by: SmAsH on December 22, 2009, 09:00:56 PM: Yeah, i know... If it works, ill use it.
Title: Re: digikey raising prices?
Post by: ed1380 on December 23, 2009, 08:21:25 PM: is this too good to be true?

http://cgi.ebay.com/AVR-ATMEGA-USB-Programmer-Logic-Analyzer-Oscilloscope_W0QQitemZ110473401321QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_0?hash=item19b8ba53e9 (http://cgi.ebay.com/AVR-ATMEGA-USB-Programmer-Logic-Analyzer-Oscilloscope_W0QQitemZ110473401321QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_0?hash=item19b8ba53e9)
Title: Re: digikey raising prices?
Post by: Razor Concepts on December 23, 2009, 08:41:36 PM: That looks like something some random guy threw together. It uses his own custom software. It looks pretty good, but if you are someone who just wants something to work out of the box, get something like the USBtinyISP from Ladyada.
Title: Re: digikey raising prices?
Post by: Admin on December 26, 2009, 01:35:36 AM: I seem to remember less than a year ago Digikey accidentally mis-priced this very same item. After some SoR forum members emailed them, they fixed the price.

I'm sure someone can find the thread if you search.
Title: Re: digikey raising prices?
Post by: cooldog on December 26, 2009, 01:46:48 PM: i already e-mailed them. im waiting on a reply
Title: Re: digikey raising prices?
Post by: T0110100101101101K on January 07, 2010, 10:52:33 PM: Way 2 go cooldog! You must have barked loud enough to knock down the price. Digi-Key's price is showing $35.36. It still doesn't seem to be the lowest right now.
Title: Re: digikey raising prices?
Post by: Admin on January 08, 2010, 12:56:44 AM: Digikey and Mouser are at war with each other. Digikey fell asleep, Mouser caught up, and Digikey is trying to fight back by price matching with Mouser.

The customer wins :D
Title: Re: digikey raising prices?
Post by: cooldog on January 08, 2010, 07:45:21 AM: Wow, it finally got knocked down! If thats the case I'm going to hold out on buying parts for a bit
Title: Re: digikey raising prices?
Post by: Admin on January 24, 2010, 04:49:19 AM: Found the old post by accident today:
http://www.societyofrobots.com/robotforum/index.php?topic=8724.0 (http://www.societyofrobots.com/robotforum/index.php?topic=8724.0)

Apparently it was increased to $58 both times.
Title: Re: digikey raising prices?
Post by: madsci1016 on January 26, 2010, 07:14:20 PM: Is there really any advantage paying $35 for a true AVR programmer when you can get a emulated one

http://www.pololu.com/catalog/product/1300 (http://www.pololu.com/catalog/product/1300)

for $20, with more features no less?

(I bought the $20 one and have no problems at all, but am I missing something?)
Title: Re: digikey raising prices?
Post by: Admin on January 26, 2010, 08:33:57 PM: With the exception of this Pololu programmer, to my knowledge, all the others fail to work with AVR Studio and make it more difficult/impossible to change fuses.

This Pololu one seems interesting . . .
Title: Re: digikey raising prices?
Post by: madsci1016 on January 26, 2010, 08:56:50 PM: Well i have used it with my Axon 1 and AVR studio with no problems at all.

Time to update the $50; I mean $35 robot tutorial? :-p
Title: Re: digikey raising prices?
Post by: Admin on January 27, 2010, 12:37:29 AM: Quote from: madsci1016 on January 26, 2010, 08:56:50 PM
Time to update the $50; I mean $35 robot tutorial? :-p
Ok, updated. It'll be about $60 with this particular programmer, but $10 more is worth it compared to PonyProg.
Title: Re: digikey raising prices?
Post by: madsci1016 on January 27, 2010, 07:07:03 AM: ????

I'm on limited internet now and can't check, but I thought someone said the digikey programmer was the one used in the tutorial. Is a ponyprog a cheapy $10 programmer?
Title: Re: digikey raising prices?
Post by: SmAsH on January 27, 2010, 09:47:56 AM: Quote from: madsci1016 on January 27, 2010, 07:07:03 AM
????

I'm on limited internet now and can't check, but I thought someone said the digikey programmer was the one used in the tutorial. Is a ponyprog a cheapy $10 programmer?
Ponyprong is software used with el-cheapo serial and parallel port programmers like the $10 one from sparkfun.
The better programmers can upload straight from avrstudio.
Title: Re: digikey raising prices?
Post by: madsci1016 on January 27, 2010, 01:41:21 PM: Ah, sounds like a hacked bit banger for cheap converter chips. Yeah the pololu programmer works directly with avr studio fine, and I think is way easier to use for only $10 more. And it has a seperate uart so you could flash and then debug without evever changing a plug or closing a terminal program.