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Looks like Texas Instruments is making a big push into the hobbyist microcontroller market with this new product called the Launch Pad. All microcontroller manufacturers have a development platform available so what makes this announcement by TI something special? The price! You can pick up one of these for only $4.30 with free worldwide shipping if you get it from the TI store. You might have to put your order in later in the day since I think this offer has crashed their order servers… Alternatively you can pick it up at Mouser for around the same price and a small shipping fee. The value line of microcontrollers that are Launch Pad compatible currently has a maximum flash size of 2K but that will soon change, as you can see by the roadmap below there will soon be many more powerful chips with as much as 16K of flash available. TI MSP430 MCU Value Line Product Roadmap
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July 1st, 2010
When are we going to get a cheap development platform for DSPs?
July 31st, 2010
Has anyone gotten there’s yet? I ordered it well over a month ago and haven’t heard anything.
July 31st, 2010
I got mine a few weeks ago, looks very good but I haven’t had the time to play with it yet.
I got an email when it was shipped and it arrived a few days later.
July 31st, 2010
[...] prize this week is a MSP430 Launch Pad that we featured last month, I got the one I ordered last week and it looks great. I haven’t had any time to check it out [...]
August 3rd, 2010
Month later and TI still didn’t ship
August 3rd, 2010
Hey Rudolf,
From what I hear they underestimated the demand.
August 10th, 2010
[...] Finnegan just completed a Bi-Color LED Clock project that is based on the TI MSP 430 Microcontroller. Thanks to the cheap development environment I think we will soon see many more MSP430 projects in [...]
September 4th, 2010
[...] all know I have a thing for meter clocks. Instructables user Doug Paradis built this one around the MSP430 microcontroller platform, check out the cool variety of meters that he is using! I love the big clunky looking Simpson meter [...]
September 20th, 2010
The Launchpad is in Europe also available from Watterott: http://www.watterott.com/en/MSP430-LaunchPad-MSP-EXP430G2
October 19th, 2011
[...] exactly easy though since it involves removing the F16-100 serial memory chip and using a TI Launchpad to reprogram [...]