Olimex; Worst documentation?

I do not believe I am in the minority in saying that the Olimex manuals and documentation are the worst ever encountered in the embedded development board world. If fact, I have several Olimex dev boards that are almost useless due to the datasheets lack of information. I only keep them around because they have PIC processors that I plan on pulling off at a later date.

Anyone with me on this? Perhaps we can change Olimex's apparent disdain for design engineers for the better. Perhaps a masterful USA division of Olimex can fix this issue.

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0 Kelv over 16 years ago

I'm all up for Vendor bashing when deserved, but I'm afraid I can't agree with you on this.
I probably don't have access to as many dev kits as you do by the sounds of it, but both the
STM32 and Pic32 dev kits have schematics available on their website, admittedly it would be nice to have it
shipped with this in Dead Tree Format, but other than that they are at a better price point than some of
their competition and their products does what it says on the tin.

edit: And looking at the number of Olimex product over views there looks to be an abundance of App notes
and various other documentation.
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0 Kelv over 16 years ago

I'm all up for Vendor bashing when deserved, but I'm afraid I can't agree with you on this.
I probably don't have access to as many dev kits as you do by the sounds of it, but both the
STM32 and Pic32 dev kits have schematics available on their website, admittedly it would be nice to have it
shipped with this in Dead Tree Format, but other than that they are at a better price point than some of
their competition and their products does what it says on the tin.

edit: And looking at the number of Olimex product over views there looks to be an abundance of App notes
and various other documentation.
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