On Sun, Aug 9, 2015, at 05:22 PM, Sean Breheny wrote:

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> I think that the most promising general-purpose hobby micros now are
> probably either MSP430s and their ilk as well as ARM-cored micros from
> several vendors like NXP.

Hi Sean,
MSP430 is starting to get a little weird. Peripheral locations, which
used to be constant from part-to-part within a series of parts, are now
moving around, ala Microchip. And the original gnu compiler, which is
great, is not being worked on anymore because TI hired Redhat to do a
new version of it and the original developer sort of saw that as an
off-ramp, I guess. It's not something I'd want to use right now, uses
lots more memory and there are bugs. Add to that the new parts with
extended addressing and MSP430 is kind of a mess right now.

STM32 is pretty cool because everything's so cheap on aliexpress/ebay:
parts, debugger, development boards.

Best regards, Bob

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