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I'm still impressed :-) (Thank you mostly to @@bluehash for shipping them though)

Did you hand-solder those chips? That's impressive none the less. I haven't' done anything with my extra PCB's. (Was thinking to maybe make a geeky Christmas wreath).

It's not a new concept that has been explored. Rice University actually has a port of Python on the Stellaris LM3S microcontrollers. : http://embeddedpython.org/index.php?title=The_Owl_Embedded_Python_System it would be interesting to see if they could further shrink the python overhead to work on smaller memory sizes.

That's so much better than the 9.99 I was paying at adafruit :-) thank you!

LOL, no problem. the conference is winding down, but @@adrianF and Dung had headed home and it's just me and my University team now.

I know it's super last minute, but @@adrianF, Dung and I are in Atlanta for the ASEE conference... and if anyone is in the area (e.g. @@JWoodrell , you came to mind) , we would love to take you for a drink!

@spirillis You are amazing. I have been so overwhelmed with getting things going for this huge education show we are doing in Atlanta, when I came in and saw your package on my desk. I opened it and immediately loved the FTDI breakout board , but what I REALLY REALLY REALLY love (I can't stress that enough here) is the adapter board you made! Not sure if I'm just late to finding out about it until that moment it came out of the envelope, but you have made my ENTIRE week. I don't have time yet to write the blog post I need to about LaunchPad + Beaglebone in Education, but your "BoosterP

I love this post so much! I can't wait to see when you post it on the TI Forums. This is a great project for students :-) Thank you so much for sharing (and your awesome photos).

I'm having issues with posting things (chalk it up to the fact I'm slightly special needs when it comes to using Internet Explorer), but Mike at US Water Rockets sent me this video that I thought was a neat solution to the male headers! http://www.uswaterrockets.com/MSP430/horizontal_stabilizer/project.htm

Not sure what you mean by reasonable, but this post may help you : http://e2e.ti.com/support/microcontrollers/msp430/f/166/t/42199.aspx

It's the half sized plus https://www.sparkfun.com/products/11317 is where I got mine

absolutely :-) this is why we share designs, so it gets improved. Nice work and thank you again!

@@Fred I absolutely love the black and grabbed a red breadboard to try it out. It feels a little "dark side" , which is okay with me

Here's Jason's (on Twitter @Jadon) video from Design West, you do have to register, but it's a presentation. https://event.on24.com/eventRegistration/EventLobbyServlet?target=registration.jsp&eventid=605328&sessionid=1&key=DD444ABA182A28C9A98D4B4395B413C9&sourcepage=register

It is, if you ever get down to Texas, put CircuitCo on your list to tour. They are super open to have people come and visit and they are only 3 miles from TI. Kenneth Finnegan did a blog post on his tour: http://blog.thelifeofkenneth.com/2012/08/tour-of-circuitco-pcb-solutions.html

Actually this painfully true, you'd think it would be easy to get a hold of one of these for myself because we work at TI, but I'm in line to get mine from Adafruit. What's really exciting about this version (besides all of the upgrades and the price) is that they have a very simplified software interface that uses the same energia commands inside a web-server IDE (plug in the board and get it started). Anything to get more people into hardware design is a win in my book!

@spirilis request here are the photos from our Texas Based- Beagle Bone Black launch. We went to CircuitCo (the people who are helping with the BYOBoosterpack contest) where BeagleBoard's birthplace is. There should be better blogs coming out later. (most took on my iphone) I'm interested to see if we can run the software that comes on the BB Black on the original one (I have 3 if anyone wants to try it out). hope that helps

No, I didn't get to go :-( but there should be a lot of coverage on Twitter. Adrian is there though, so is Trey German and they will be taking lots of photos.

Actually, it's not new, but it's hidden inside of the TI University Program under teaching materials. We work with a few professors who are using the platforms to create course material for other professors to use as they wish. Although it's a large download and it reminds me of those old CD-ROM's (memory lane: like encyclopedia-encarta), there's some good getting started information in there.

I'd like to see your blog when you get it up and hopefully we have a good place to post it when you do. I subscribed to your YouTube channel and plan on watching your videos!

I don't know of any easy way to do it, but I would think that you would have to pretty much re-design the board to change the frequency. This is a really good app note on moving from frequency to frequency on the same antenna. This brings back a bit of nightmare flashbacks to my e-mag courses, but if you're into RF (or think you want to be) this may help : http://www.ti.com/lit/an/swra161b/swra161b.pdf Where I found the above App Note

you may also want to take a look at the MSP430 Teaching ROM. It starts a little basic, but it gets into the architecture at a higher level. http://e2e.ti.com/group/universityprogram/educators/w/wiki/2043.msp430-teaching-rom.aspx

@@Rickta59 do you mean freenodeirc? Not sure if I've used that, but I'll look at it! @yykroon >Is this what you're asking ? No, not really, I'd actually prefer to be able to link to those particular YouTube channels, not so much start an independent location. The thing I'm looking for is more of a consolidation. Almost like a "pinterest" for teaching material if it's a book, blog, YouTube Channel, DataSheet etc. I'm thinking maybe to use the University site Teaching Material more/better. Issue is that we don't do textbooks yet or people's blogs, but maybe it's time to start

So, the past year and a half I've been really focusing on getting more learning materials out for people to learn microcontrollers. We have an entire page of textbooks : http://ti.com/textbooks and of course the free Teaching ROM's and our CNX.org channels and well as more coming down the pipeline. e.g. Dan Harres from BitStream Technology made this MSP430 Robots book (came out end of March). Issue is that I'm not sure where/how to publicize the information-- and I'm not sure it's getting out. Also, I really want to collect reviews on the material so we can improve the next editi