Re: [foxboro] V8 Letterbug Configurator

This is somewhat off-topic, but I point it out to maybe guide some product 
development decisions in the future.

I never understood this approach to letterbug configuration (using a WinMo 
PDA with IR).  Basically you now have to buy a relatively complex, special 
tool, one which you likely will not use for anything else, and that you 
will have to keep a battery charged in.  This kind of thing is the bane of 
an instrument shop's existence.  Letterbug configuration really should be 
doable from ICC/IACC/IEE in 2009 (if they should have to be manually 
configured at all).  But if that is too much to ask, why not use a device 
that plugged into the FBM (and received its power therefrom)?  At the 
least  port the app to regular Windows on a laptop which _is_ used for 
other things (one could user a USB IR dongle to get around the paucity of 
IR ports these days).


Corey




 
 
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