> Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2012 07:27:39 -0700 > From: Keenan Tims <[email protected]> > To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement > <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Fwd: Re: Contact: Jupiter GPS questions > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > There is an MSP430 port of GCC that works fine, and mspdebug is able to > write the code to the chip via the programming hardware that comes on > the Launchpad boards. TI also provides several free IDEs with code size > limits, if you prefer that route. Definitely not as easy for a beginner > as an Arduino - the chips are more complicated and the documentation a > bit more arcane - but there's still a good community around them and > decent tools available for free. There's also the ST 'DISCOVERY' series. > Much more powerful chips, on a board, with a USB programmer still around > the $10 mark, but coding for ARM is again another step up the difficulty > ladder. >
I've built a couple of projects using an Arduino clone. Very easy to get working, there's a complete IDE available and it's pretty simple to set up a standard "make" environment if that's your preference. I'm rather sold on these. I recently picked up a couple of TI LM4F120 evaluation kits. These were $5 each INCLUDING SHIPPING. There's a free gcc based toolchain for those too. If you don't like C, you can use a Basic Stamp. They've been around a long while. -- Paul Amaranth, GCIH | Rochester MI, USA Aurora Group, Inc. | Security, Systems & Software [email protected] | Unix & Windows _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
