I picked up in this thread that TI has entered the hobbyist microprocesser market populated by Arduino, Picaxe, Basic Stamp, etc.
At $4.30 US including shipping, they have definitely priced this development kit to sell. It looks like an interesting system, and I couldn't beat the price, so I ordered one. I understand demand is quite high, so I don't know when it will arrive.
I figured that this new entry to the market deserved its own forum topic.
TI has established a wiki for their new kit, which you can find here.
This is almost certainly the case - late last year they launched a similarly flavoured product, the Chronos eZ430 Dev Kit. It uses one of the 430 microcontrollers, comes with all the gear needed to interface to your PC, has a free set of development programs, and is surprisingly cheap for what you get (if you can get one, they sell out pretty fast whenever a new lot is made =D ).
I like how Xmos did it, and considering how much their kit is, I don’t see why TI doesn’t just do the same thing and set up a project competition with their procs. Free gets something into the hands of a lot of dev folks.
Some one says if you enter the code " HALFMSPTOOL" then you can get it for $2.15. I will try and order with this when i can get through to the product page.
