<div class="gmail_quote">(forgot to CC list... tsk)<br><br>Holy cow! Thanks for the link. Just about to buy some for myself + friends.<br><br>With such a low cost of entry this would make a very excellent teaching platform.<br>
<font color="#888888"><br>Tom</font><div><div></div><div class="h5"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 4:10 PM, Jean-Marc LeBlanc <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jeanmarc.leblanc@gmail.com" target="_blank">jeanmarc.leblanc@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">hey,<br>
So Texas instrument has launched their new dev board for their "Value<br>
line" of the MSP430 Micro controller. It is meant probably to compete<br>
with PIC and Arduino. The Micro controllers are not as good at the<br>
Arduino, but if all you are doing is turning on a LED or simply<br>
controlling a machine or using it as a line driver they would probably<br>
be good enough. The board is sold for only 4.60$ cnd and has free<br>
shipping right now at<br>
<a href="http://ca.mouser.com/ProductDetail/Texas-Instruments/MSP-EXP430G2/?qs=CLImetaeaXWH2pYG%252bA%252b4Vw%3d%3d" target="_blank">http://ca.mouser.com/ProductDetail/Texas-Instruments/MSP-EXP430G2/?qs=CLImetaeaXWH2pYG%252bA%252b4Vw%3d%3d</a><br>
this is their wiki<br>
<a href="http://ca.mouser.com/ProductDetail/Texas-Instruments/MSP-EXP430G2/?qs=CLImetaeaXWH2pYG%252bA%252b4Vw%3d%3d" target="_blank">http://ca.mouser.com/ProductDetail/Texas-Instruments/MSP-EXP430G2/?qs=CLImetaeaXWH2pYG%252bA%252b4Vw%3d%3d</a><br>
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I will have one soon ;) if any one if curious on what I thought of it<br>
let me know. I can let you know my thoughts. I could also bring it to<br>
one of the meetings or some thing<br>
<br>
<br>
Jean-Marc Le Blanc<br>
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"Do you pine for the nice days of Minix-1.1, when men were men and<br>
wrote their own device drivers?" Linus Torvalds<br>
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