On Apr 3, 2012, at 5:45 PM, Nuno Sucena Almeida wrote:

>> 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...

So the 433 is the one to go for universality, and maybe the 915 for a slightly 
better range.

>       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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