LaunchPad is here!
25 February, 2011
So, I’ve been busy with life these last weeks. But there are still interesting things going on at school — microcontrollers seem to be all the rage these days: we have 2 courses where we play with the critters.
Well, I now have my own (really cheap) board to play with: a Texas Instruments LaunchPad! I’m stepping through its temperature monitoring program as we speak 
Fortunately, there are lots of tutorials on how to get started and if all goes well, we might have a small project to do with these dev kits. I leave you with some neat unpacking pics. I really wanted to capture my excitement (that wore off pretty quick) in getting my first hardware kit!
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Oh noes, another „launchpad” product (I almost thought you were talking about Apple’s launchpad)!
When you have the time and money, you could consider trying the not-that-cheap-but-more-fun Arduino board. That until you get to doing one yourself. All in all, they’re all worth their money, even just because you get to program on something else than a PC.
Hey,
Good luck with that. I am playing myself with a board. Python baby!
You know, after having had it for over a week, I’ve decided that I only care about it blinking its LEDs. Seriously, that is it.
The whole process of setting it up is infuriating: set up Windows, download the IDEs, get the examples, stept through the demo program, find out what all those nasty variables are…
I’ve gone back to playing with Scheme
I would recommend having a look at hack a day if you want to get some ideas. However, this doesn’t make it any easier to do hardware hacking. You might find some interesting tutorials, though.