I seriously cannot believe a freakin' serial cable cost $19.99 plus tax at compusa. That is such a ridiculous price to charge for one. I am sure there are millions of used ones out there looking for a home or living in the trash but after a week of searching and begging, I had to breakdown and buy a new one. It kills me because it is also so seriously environmentally irresponsible. I really should have just invested the money in a usb board for my basic stamp seeing as it would have only been another $30.00 and at least it would work on macs too.
This better be fun to program. I already have some plans but I need the digital color meter module and the bluetooth module. I can already see hardware costing too much. I should just stick with software development, where the development costs are relatively low when you know what you are doing. There is such a huge difference in the problems cause by errors in development with hardware.
Losing a chip is way more "expensive" than losing a file and you can't physically die from software development the way you can with hardware. I found myself deciding to touch the electricity yesterday, just so I wouldn't have to fear it anymore. Wish me luck.