I guess that's one day per digit in the usual pi value 3.14159... oh wait! They're one day short!!!
I tried to order the MSP-EXP430FR4133 under the Pi-week special which requires entering a coupon code to get the "special" price. No go. It says the code is expired. The Pi-week page says it is good until the
19th, so it should have worked.Of course there's no way to reach TI since everything is closed over the weekend.
I bet I can find something on eBay that will ship today for less money!
-- Rick C
I stand corrected. I figured I could find a clone, but no, the only things I found appear to be the actual TI board at a much higher price. Same with Aliexpress and any other outlet like Amazon.
So even without the sale, TI has the best price on these eval boards.
-- Rick C
Hmm, yeah, it says expired for me too, but it's just $1.50 off. The shipping discount ($3.14 instead of $6.99) still works, including without the coupon.
I went ahead and ordered two. I think having the LCD with larger characters than most LCDs will be useful. These can become some easily programmed test gear. I use Mecrisp Forth to program devices like this and it is very easy. I only wish they had similar boards with ARM processors. But they seem to segregate functionality according to how they see customers using the MCUs I suppose. Even though they promote the ARM as being power competitive to the MSP430, they still don't seem to push that with the eval boards.
Doh! When I was printing out the receipt I had to go through the page listing all your orders. Seems I bought two of these two years ago! I dug around a bit and found one. I suppose I can find uses for all of them.
-- Rick C
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