Good news, unlike the Arduino the header spacing falls into the 0.1″ divisions necessary to interface with common protoboard. All of these pins are broken out to the header ports on either side of the board, which resemble the Arduino layout to us. It has a machined DIP socket that can accept chips with up to 20 pins. Launchpad is a programming and development board for the TI MSP430. The video conference paired us with one of their engineers who took us through the details of the package, mentioning the low price tag every minute or so. We received a contact request on our tip line from a public relations firm on behalf of Texas Instruments. Join us after the break to see what the package offers, then decide if the price is right. TI’s biggest selling point is price, but we’re going to wait to share that with you. We see this as a bid for the hobby market currently enjoyed by Arduino, PIC, AVR, and others. We’ve seen these chips before, most notably in the ez430 Chronos sports watch. This morning Texas Instruments unveiled Launchpad, a development platform for their low-cost MSP430 line of microcontrollers.
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