Quote Originally Posted by dhouston View Post
However, I still need a power supply. So it might be better to use an external USB-Serial adapter which can also supply power.
The people who make XINO are promising a plug-in USB-Serial adapter.
5 way serial header now brings out MCUPWR rail and RESET. This is for our forthcoming serial programmer which will program PICAXE, PIC, Atmel and XRF boards. You can use a generic FTDI board, max232 boards with plain old serial and even those bargain basement CA-42 phone cables which use the prolific chipset. For auto reset you need DTR or you can, like in the old design manually press reset to invoke the bootloader. (Not applicable for PICAXE/Genie as they use a different method, which is fully supported via the stereo jack).
One can only hope that they are faster than Tibbo who still haven't released their long-promised Tibbo EM500/GA1000 firmware.

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