Stellaris Cortex-M4F LaunchPad only $5!

fustini over 13 years ago

A local hackerspace mailing list clued me into this:

Stellaris LM4F120 LaunchPad Evaluation

http://www.ti.com/tool/ek-lm4f120xl

Promotional pricing right now is $4.99!

cheers,

drew

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DAB over 13 years ago in reply to fustini +2

TI already has C and asembly code libraries for nearly all of their peripherals. Go to the TI.com site and check into MSP430 or the LM4F120 and you will see a whole host of free software to start from…
RWM over 13 years ago in reply to DAB +1

Will be shipped after Sep. 25, so there is some time to get familar with documentation http://www.ti.com/ww/en/launchpad_site/stellaris.html?DCMP=stellaris-launchpad&HQS=stellaris-launchpadB-bhp http:…
bluehash over 13 years ago +1

You guys should check out the Stellarisiti Forums( http://forum.stellarisiti.com/ ). This thread( http://forum.stellarisiti.com/topic/164-new-stellaris-launchpad/ ) has alot of information on latest info…

johnbeetem over 13 years ago

Nice! According to ti.com, the processor has floating point, as well as 256KB Flash and 32KB SRAM. Great price for eval board, since the chip is $4.40 Q1K by itself!
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DAB over 13 years ago

Mine is already on order.

I can't wait to see what it can do.

DAB
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RWM over 13 years ago in reply to DAB

Will be shipped after Sep. 25, so there is some time to get familar with documentation

http://www.ti.com/ww/en/launchpad_site/stellaris.html?DCMP=stellaris-launchpad&HQS=stellaris-launchpadB-bhp

http://www.ti.com/product/lm4f120h5qr
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bluehash over 13 years ago

You guys should check out the Stellarisiti Forums(http://forum.stellarisiti.com/). This thread(http://forum.stellarisiti.com/topic/164-new-stellaris-launchpad/) has alot of information on latest info.
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ntewinkel over 13 years ago

Wow, first msp430 for $4.30 and now Stellaris Cortex for $5. TI is getting serious about taking on the hobby/experimenters market.
Now if they could also port all those handy Arduino libraries and make an easy to use starter GUI, they could take over the world
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fustini over 13 years ago in reply to ntewinkel

I'm looking forward to getting to know their existing tools when the LM4F120 arrives, but, yeah, I'm a bit surprised they've not ported Arduino libraries given they win on hardware cost.
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DAB over 13 years ago in reply to fustini

TI already has C and asembly code libraries for nearly all of their peripherals.

Go to the TI.com site and check into MSP430 or the LM4F120 and you will see a whole host of free software to start from.
One thing I have learned from the MSP430 is that TI and their E2E community have put a lot of suppport documentation and software out for others to play with.

The advantage for pre-ordering the Stillaris board now is that the pre-orders will ship on 25 September. Orders place after that will be at production limit. So don't get caught like the PI buyers, get yours on order now.

Just a thought,
DAB
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bbolo1 over 13 years ago

Thanks guys for sharing this. I just ordered my boards today.
Very good value for the money.
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Former Member over 13 years ago

Hi guys,

In case anybody's interested, here's one of my posts regarding a library I wrote for controlling a TM1638 (nice and cheap little board featuring 8 7segment digits !):

http://trandi.wordpress.com/2012/10/11/tm1638-display-driver-for-stellaris-launchpad/

There was already one for Arduino and the MSP430, and now you can easily use the Stellaris Launchpad too.

You can download the library and use it as you wish, I can't wait to see what people will be doing with it..:)

Dan
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Nate1616 over 13 years ago

Just ordered mine. Cant wait to get it. thanks for posting Drew.
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