I think, the PC/104 idea is to expensive and to complicated.
It remeber me to my beginning with 8031, RAM and monitor EPROM. And this is definetively no longer state of the art.

Today a small 1 or 2 chip solution with in application programming was flexible, easy and cheap, especially for education purposes.
Then all port pins can be feed to a wrap area to add something. Some LEDs and keys on board are good for the first steps.

Its also easier on education to use a couple of these boards and every student can solve its own task on it without any reccource conflicts.
Also its nice to connect all together to make a complete application. E.g. over a common serial bus (I2C, 1-wire, RS485, CAN, SPI or whatever).

In my opinion this architecture looks many better than the very old and expensive PC/104.

Also today in my practice I use many micros in a single gadget. And this give many advantages (easy connection, easy extension, high reliability).


Hi Jay,

the idea to insert mistakes into software examples sounds good. Its fully clearly, that only not right working things can cause training the brain. Especially today in the time of "Copy and Paste", thinking can to easy be supressed.
So in future I should also insert some mistakes in my web examples.


Peter