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Electronics => Electronics => Topic started by: ellize on June 05, 2008, 07:32:50 PM

Title: Difference between a interface & a development board
Post by: ellize on June 05, 2008, 07:32:50 PM: What's the difference between an interface & a development board? Are they the same?
Title: Re: Difference between a interface & a development board
Post by: pomprocker on June 06, 2008, 11:07:29 AM: An interface:

An interface defines the communication boundary between two entities, such as a piece of software, a hardware device, or a user.

Development board:

Read up, it talks about these:

http://www.societyofrobots.com/microcontroller_tutorial.shtml (http://www.societyofrobots.com/microcontroller_tutorial.shtml)
Title: Re: Difference between a interface & a development board
Post by: benji on June 06, 2008, 04:05:38 PM: same difference between a cow and an egg ;D
Title: Re: Difference between a interface & a development board
Post by: winnie on June 13, 2008, 12:29:37 AM: how about the difference between a demonstration board and a development board?
Title: Re: Difference between a interface & a development board
Post by: winnie on June 13, 2008, 12:30:29 AM: how about the difference between a demonstration board and a development board?
Title: Re: Difference between a interface & a development board
Post by: emmannuel on June 13, 2008, 03:04:04 PM: Quote from: winnie on June 13, 2008, 12:30:29 AM
how about the difference between a demonstration board and a development board?

I'm interested in this as well.

I believe a demo board is like a dev board but without all the features or a board that has extra circuitry to show off the different features of the board.

I tried google'ing it but no luck. :P
Title: Re: Difference between a interface & a development board
Post by: airman00 on June 14, 2008, 07:46:54 PM: demo board is a board that companies give out to try it out , like a show off board

dev board is for building robots on and well , developing. This is like the Axon board