[HH] $25 eZ430-Chronos watch

[Drew Van Zandt]

I've used the 2400MHz ez430 dev kit extensively; it's very well done, and a
really approachable dev environment.  30 minutes from getting a kit to
compiling sample code to it and running a test; a few more hours to have a
usable engineering demo for management.

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Drew Van Zandt
Artisan's Asylum Craft Lead, Electronics & Robotics
Cam # US2010035593 (M:Liam Hopkins R: Bastian Rotgeld)
Domain Coordinator, MA-003-D.  Masquerade aVST
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On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 11:11 PM, Federico Lucifredi <flucifredi at acm.org>wrote:

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> On Apr 3, 2012, at 5:45 PM, Nuno Sucena Almeida wrote:
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> >> By the way, since Digi offers all three versions, you want the 433Mhz
> for US use, or barring that, the 915Mhz one. Thought I'd point out, since
> Digi does not seem to.
> >
> >       The second link has a table with frequency region allocations, but
> you
> > are right, they should be more clear on that main tideals mainpage.
>
> Actually, I should specify this further: 433 Mhz will work anywhere, 915
> will do in the US but *may* have longer range - TI doesn't say, but if all
> else is equal...
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> So the 433 is the one to go for universality, and maybe the 915 for a
> slightly better range.
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> >       I use other microcontrollers from PICxxx to ATxxx and have been
> > following these MSP430, and thought about getting the $5 eval board, so
> > what are your thoughts on this watch ?
>
> I have the eval board for the MSP430, but I haven't found the time to use
> it.  I think that's the bigger bottleneck... there are several very
> affordable USB-based development options for the MSP430, it is just a
> matter of having the time to do something fitting the environment, which is
> not as open-ended as having a full Linux system on hand (like, say, a
> BeagleBone).  So, I'd say it is good if one has a fitting application for
> it.
>
> Best -F
>
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