[Lab] another thought about learning arduino: budget

[Darcy Whyte]

I have a couple of those launch pads by the way. Anybody want them?

They're new in box. It's just that I've gone all arduinoey. And I have some
arm stuff up next for me so I don't think I'll get to those MSP430s for a
while.





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On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 3:17 PM, Aurelius R <maxrowsell at gmail.com> wrote:

> Regarding TI parts, I am quite experienced with MSP430, Hercules and Tiva
> C devices. I actually am currently writing for element14 about Tiva C
> parts. So if anyone is interested in learning C for Tiva or MSP430 parts
> let me know.
>
> I'm definitely more interested in teaching serial protocols though as that
> is my strength.
> What kind of timeline are people interested in? An hour? A couple hours? I
> want to work with Darcy to do a split workshop, perhaps two parts, each an
> hour or something like that.
>
> Keep the suggestions coming, they're all helping a lot!
>
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>
> On 4 March 2014 13:01, Justin Hornosty <jjrh70 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> pascal at rapicault.net writes:
>>
>> > The other thing you want to consider as part of the workshop is how to
>> > go from the standard arduino board to something more standalone.
>> >
>>
>> While information/teaching wise I don't know, but a board I would be
>> interested in is the msp430 launchpad, and at $5 for the devboard it's
>> not the
>> most costly thing.
>>
>> > On 04/03/2014 8:01 AM, Darcy Whyte wrote:
>> >>
>> >> I'm curious. Of the people that want to learn arduino out there, what
>> >> budget would you say is appropriate for parts?
>> >>
>> >> 20 bucks?
>> >>
>> >> 40 bucks?
>> >>
>> >> 100 bucks? :)
>> >>
>> >> I suppose if a workshop has a simple project that's just for learning,
>> >> 20 bucks or so. But if the project starts to have use then people
>> >> might be more interested.
>> >>
>> >> Ideas?
>> >>
>> >>
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>> >>
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