Cheap Microcontroller Development.

Chaos · 26 Jun 2010 at 12:46

Not sure how many people this will appeal to but yesterday I noticed this cheap development platform.

Texus Instruments are trying to get into the hobby micro market and are releasing a microcontroller development kit for just $4.30 and free shipping, just ordered one last night.

Im assuming they are not classed as competitors as they dont seem to sell anything ocuk does.

http://www.ti-estore.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Product_Code=MSP-EXP430G2

PermaBanned · 26 Jun 2010 at 13:19

But does it run Crysis?

AiiR · 26 Jun 2010 at 13:23

Sorry to sound clueless, but what can you do with this? :/

iNPUt · 26 Jun 2010 at 13:24

AiiR said:
Sorry to sound clueless, but what can you do with this? :/

Yes does sound interesting, someone explain please, vid is very confusing

Jokester · 26 Jun 2010 at 13:25

Wow, that's as cheap as chips (sorry).

Looks impressive for $4.30!

iNPUt · 26 Jun 2010 at 13:29

Just watched the second video, when he is rubbing the chip it makes me laugh.. dirty mind

Chaos · 26 Jun 2010 at 13:29

AiiR said:
Sorry to sound clueless, but what can you do with this? :/

You use it for electronics projects, basically you program the chip in the c programming language to do stuff.

Jokester · 26 Jun 2010 at 13:29

AiiR said:
Sorry to sound clueless, but what can you do with this? :/

You could use it say for example if you were into home made rockets (probably the Launchpad thing putting the idea into my head) - could say program the rocket ignition, stage separation, parachute deployment etc into the microcontroller.

p4radox · 26 Jun 2010 at 13:37

It looks good, but it'll have to be very good to topple the Arduino for the hobbyist's microcontroller demo kit of choice.

Chaos · 26 Jun 2010 at 13:42

p4radox said:
It looks good, but it'll have to be very good to topple the Arduino for the hobbyist's microcontroller demo kit of choice.

Yeah it seems they want to compete with the arduino thats why its so cheap it has be be a loss leader.

Tikkabhuna · 26 Jun 2010 at 16:50

Oh sweet. For GCSE Systems and Control I had to make something similar to that. We had to have a PCB which monitored light or temperature and then change from a green LED to a red one if it was too hot/cold/light/dark. We used external LDRs and thermistors though. Quite cool stuff.