Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!mx02.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Paul Rubin Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth Subject: Re: Xmas Date: Sun, 27 Dec 2015 18:07:31 -0800 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 11 Message-ID: <87a8ovfhr0.fsf@nightsong.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: mx02.eternal-september.org; posting-host="7fb8b9b5119ed656382b2cea88166c4f"; logging-data="20474"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/0VsCkiCZCQUDupu8YF9ZR" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:bdRUemNCna9KGIC9vGwOc1HD6gE= sha1:xBng5hW5Zmpo0dEm/oWl6cN6qww= Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.forth:44383 rickman writes: > At one time TI sold an MSP430 board for $4.30. That's the only thing > I've seen that was comparable in price and still useful. There's tons of Chinese MCU boards including some with wifi for that much. For something more local, https://www.adafruit.com/products/1500 seems pretty cool. It may be a bit too small for a resident Forth but seems like a good target for a tethered one (AVR cpu, 8k flash, 0.5k ram, 0.5k eeprom). Olimex has something like it too: https://www.olimex.com/Products/Duino/AVR/OLIMEXINO-85S/open-source-hardware