TI's latest dirt cheap MCU eval board

[superUnknown]

Couple of links if you're curious:
It's got a lot of bang for thirteen bucks!
TI's product page

[JoeO]

Couple of links if you're curious:
It's got a lot of bang for thirteen bucks!
TI's product page

Out of stock!

[superUnknown]

Very good.

The best one yet for price/speed/ability is still the STM32F4-Discovery. Mine runs at upto 240MHz - hard to beat for just over £10.

$16 from Mouser? ($38 from Element 14?! Ben Heck shows ain't worth it!) Dirt cheap for the features, to be sure. Easy IDE, libraries and examples?

[westfw]

If you're wondering, like I was, where the USB connector for the target processor is...
The "top half" of the board includes a USB HUB chip.  So both the target cpu and the easyFET chip are accessed via the same connector!

I guess that's nice...

[dannyf]

Easy IDE, libraries and examples?

It is highly subjective if an IDE is easy or not; and what's easy to me isn't necessarily easy to you, and vice versa. Both keil and IAR are very easy to use in my view for example.

As to libraries: 1) you can always roll your own; and 2) the ST library is very flexible and fairly proven at this point;

Examples? There are tons of them.

Yes, the STM32F4 boards are tough to beat in terms of performance / price.

[alm]

The MSP430 is a 16-bit micro. They're not trying to compete on performance. Performance is irrelevant for many embedded applications, which could easily be handled with an 8-bit micro running at a few MHz.

[mrflibble]

As already stated, they are not really trying to compete. The above MSP430 is nice for low power applications, the STM32F4 is nice for when you need higher performance.