Review on Ximimark Digispark Kickstarter ATTINY85 Development by Victor Ewing

Summary: If you REALLY REALLY want/need to use the digispark I love them very much, good luck or miss with other vendors, nicely packaged AND! THEY WORK! I have used many digisparks when they cost me $2 each, these are really AWESOME but now that I have to spend $4 to get a working digispark or buy 5 for $2 and hope one or 2 this is how they work I'm done with Digispark but when I use them I want them to work like this. They have worked great for me. Lots of people have trouble with bootloader not burning or funny things like you upload a sketch, the sketch works great until you turn off the power so you can test, re-upload and test again. If a perfectly working Digispark is $4, I can get a perfectly working Nano for that price, have twice the pins, and frankly. Digisparks seem pretty nifty, maybe that's how they load and then run the sketch, but I think I messed up the bootloader software by pressing the button on pin 3 or 4, so maybe I could fix it, by downloading the bootloader again. But basically I'm only avoiding pins 3/4 now and pin 5 is your soft reset so if you use it for anything reset your digispark. So, great $4 digispark I think, but I've never killed a $4 nano with less headache, more pins, integrated software chip, actual reset button, actual reset pin, actual USB Debugging/serial monitoring and as an added bonus, I can test the nano and load a new sketch without disconnecting it, but Digispark, I get the USB device plugged in, sound/ring, enter, then exit, change sketch, connect, then finish, hmmm. nothing happens, I connect, upload the sketch again, then disconnect, everything works now, but I still need to change something.