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Honored ContributorI've decided to either keep or return the eBay board; pending on how much of a hassle it is. However I did go onto DigiKey and purchase a DE0 Nano Dev Board. Came with what looks like a more modern USB-Blaster programmer (turns out the usb blaster is built on-to the board) and some Altera software for $82.00. I would have gotten the product from Altera at the Academic price but I haven't heard back from Altera this week so being that I am an impatient person I just sucked up the price difference and got a board from DigiKey instead. This product looks a whole heck of a lot more promising than the eBay board by far. The low profile design is really nice and I like how it has an accelerometer built in. Most Dev Boards have the common amenities like LEDs, switches, headphones/mic etc but rarely do I see an accelerometer on a board. There's also a lot of documentation which is a plus.
The seller on eBay did send me a datasheet-type-thing I'm not really sure what I should call it. Take a look for yourself... link (https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=gmail&attid=0.1&thid=141d5fcfbb9fed27&mt=application/rar&url=https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?ui%3d2%26ik%3dd40cbb66f5%26view%3datt%26th%3d141d5fcfbb9fed27%26attid%3d0.1%26disp%3dsafe%26realattid%3df_hn0abmgw0%26zw&sig=ahietbsirouofhz4pzgg3muhqdi8tqbyka) is to Google Docs. I cannot make a lick of sense of this mess. There's docs everywhere and many formats of the same file. EDIT: After some digging and organizing the files a bit I did find the datasheet for this board. So I might keep it, better to fry this thing than the more expensive DE0 Nano. :rolleyes:
