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>But I feel my electronics skills are way to low, I need to learn things
>like:
>* More basic understanding about the electronics.
>* How to control things that require more current then the stk can
>provide.
>* How to build things without using the stk500.
>* Howto read datasheets.
>* Howto find errors in my hardware designs.
>* Etc

Get thee to Amazon.com for Horowitz and Hill's "Art of Electronics".

It will cost about what an STK-500 does.
You'll have it long after the STK-500 is obsolete.

Highly recommended: Asimov's Guide to Physics.