I live in northern Ohio as well. Small world. On Jan 11, 2011, at 4:07 PM, Carl Denk wrote: > Where are you all located? Here in Northern Ohio, the drive would have > been clean, driver could have driven to door. :) > > On 1/11/2011 3:32 PM, Charles Craft wrote: >> Ordered 3 from the TI online store on 12/17/2010. >> Got a shipping email on 01/03/2011 that they shipping (from Singapore). >> Received them today via FedEx. >> FedEx guy even walked up from the street (about 200m) because the >> driveway is a snowy, icy mess. :-) >> >> On 12/17/2010 1:37 AM, William "Chops" Westfield wrote: >> >>> On Dec 16, 2010, at 1:54 PM, Bob Blick wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>>> All for $4.30 delivered! >>>> >>>> >>> It's just a (rather substantial) free sample with a nominal charge >>> attached. Frankly I would have been more impressed if it looked like >>> it had actually been designed to minimize costs, and maybe farmed out >>> to multiple manufacturers. As is, TI made a substantial number of >>> enemies by taking MONTHS to ship to a lot of people, with an ordering >>> system not really designed to keep track of orders (which they also >>> changed shortly after introducing the launchpad, leaving many people >>> unable to find their order status at all.) (I ordered two on 27-Jul >>> and got them 24-Sep) >>> >>> That said, the MSP430 is a sweet architecture, and these chips have >>> really good debugging capabilities for a less-than-$1 micro. The TI >>> development environment is Eclipse based and not awful (?), and there >>> is some Nth party support (gcc, programming tools, etc) for non- >>> windows operating systems. >>> >>> I can't figure out how they managed to sell 80000+ boards without >>> developing a more active community, though. TI forum: sparse. Google >>> group: rather quiet. MSP430 yahoo group: reasonably active but not >>> much about the LaunchPad. They aspired to appeal to the Arduino crowd >>> and have failed rather miserably, except for the price. >>> >>> In general, I really like the direction TI has gone in with low-cost >>> evaluation tools. The Launchpad probably went too far, but there are >>> a lot of sub-$50 tools that are pretty neat, and reasonably useful for >>> evaluation... >>> >>> BillW >>> >>> >>> >> > -- > http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive > View/change your membership options at > http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist --=20 http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist .