Re: Xmas

From	rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.forth
Subject	Re: Xmas
Date	2015-12-27 22:26 -0500
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On 12/27/2015 9:59 PM, jim.brakefield@ieee.org wrote:
> On Sunday, December 27, 2015 at 6:58:46 PM UTC-6, rickman wrote:
>> On 12/27/2015 6:56 PM, Chris Curl wrote:
>>> LOL ... So I was returning the rPi, and they had a rPi Zero there for $5.
>>> Now I have one of those. I also grabbed another Uno R3 because they were
>>> on sale for $4.99. The last thing I grabbed was a Mega 2560 r3 (256k
>>> Flash, 8k RAM, 4k EPROM) for $9.99.
>>>
>>> Those rPi Zero things are ridiculous!
>>
>> Yeah, I don't have a Micro Center convenient to me.  The shipping on the
>> zero is more than the unit.  Once I have a real need for it I'll pick up
>> a couple.  They are pretty amazing at that price.
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> --
>>
>> Rick
>
> "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."
>
> Cypress has small PCBs of their PSoC4 and PSoC5 chips for $4 and $10:
> CY8CKIT-049 and CY8CKIT-059 (32K flash / 4K RAM or 256K / 64K)
> These are ARM processors: Cortex M0 and M3; with programmable analog and digital.

I had forgotten about those.  I have a few of them, but found the tools 
to be awkward to use.  Specifically I was asked to dig out the serial 
port code for a Mecrisp port.  Their tools try to be usable without 
knowing anything about the parts, so the underlying code is hard to get 
to.  I guess once you get up and running with a couple of projects under 
your belt their tool isn't so bad, but it was not easy to come up the 
learning curve.  Maybe my learning horsepower isn't what it used to 
be... lol

I wanted to do a project with one of these boards, but in the end used 
at TI Launchpad.

-- 

Rick

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  Re: Xmas Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2015-12-23 09:44 -0800
    Re: Xmas Ron Aaron <rambamist@gmail.com> - 2015-12-23 20:55 +0200
      Re: Xmas Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2015-12-23 11:03 -0800
  Re: Xmas rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2015-12-23 14:10 -0500
  Re: Xmas Chris Curl <ccurl609@gmail.com> - 2015-12-23 11:36 -0800
    Re: Xmas rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2015-12-23 14:54 -0500
    Re: Xmas Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2015-12-23 16:47 -0800
  Re: Xmas Chris Curl <ccurl609@gmail.com> - 2015-12-23 13:01 -0800
    Re: Xmas Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2015-12-23 13:15 -0800
      Re: Xmas Chris Curl <ccurl609@gmail.com> - 2015-12-23 21:20 -0800
        Re: Xmas Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2015-12-23 22:11 -0800
          Re: Xmas Albert van der Horst <albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl> - 2015-12-24 11:52 +0000
    Re: Xmas rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2015-12-23 16:26 -0500
      Re: Xmas Chris Curl <ccurl609@gmail.com> - 2015-12-23 18:20 -0800
        Re: Xmas rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2015-12-23 21:45 -0500
          Re: Xmas Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2015-12-23 19:29 -0800
    Re: Xmas hughaguilar96@gmail.com - 2015-12-23 19:45 -0800
      Re: Xmas Raimond Dragomir <raimond.dragomir@gmail.com> - 2015-12-23 22:46 -0800
        Re: Xmas Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2015-12-23 23:22 -0800
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        Re: Xmas Waldek Hebisch <hebisch@antispam.uni.wroc.pl> - 2015-12-30 01:55 +0000
          Re: Xmas hughaguilar96@gmail.com - 2015-12-30 19:27 -0800
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      Re: Xmas Chris Curl <ccurl609@gmail.com> - 2015-12-24 11:13 -0800
  Re: Xmas Chris Curl <ccurl609@gmail.com> - 2015-12-23 21:33 -0800
    Re: Xmas Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2015-12-23 22:14 -0800
  Xmas Mikael Nordman <oh2aun@gmail.com> - 2015-12-24 04:25 -0800
  Re: Xmas Chris Curl <ccurl609@gmail.com> - 2015-12-26 21:32 -0800
    Re: Xmas rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2015-12-27 01:07 -0500
    Re: Xmas Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2015-12-26 22:10 -0800
  Re: Xmas Chris Curl <ccurl609@gmail.com> - 2015-12-26 23:43 -0800
    Re: Xmas rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2015-12-27 10:56 -0500
      Re: Xmas Chris Curl <ccurl609@gmail.com> - 2015-12-27 09:01 -0800
        Re: Xmas rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2015-12-27 12:31 -0500
          Re: Xmas Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2015-12-27 09:59 -0800
  Re: Xmas Chris Curl <ccurl609@gmail.com> - 2015-12-27 15:56 -0800
    Re: Xmas Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2015-12-27 16:14 -0800
      Re: Xmas Chris Curl <ccurl609@gmail.com> - 2015-12-27 17:58 -0800
    Re: Xmas rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2015-12-27 19:58 -0500
      Re: Xmas Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2015-12-27 18:07 -0800
      Re: Xmas jim.brakefield@ieee.org - 2015-12-27 18:59 -0800
        Re: Xmas rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2015-12-27 22:26 -0500

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