The Texas Instruments MSP430 Launchpad Kit is a particularly compelling alternative ... some header pins. Getting started with the Launchpad is pretty much the same as working with an Arduino.

However, Arduino also offers this board without headers pre-soldered ... to use the board (connected to some push buttons) as an alternative keyboard that can send ASCII characters to a computer ...

The Teensy microcontroller. [Credit: Adafruit] The Arduino microcontroller is an easy way to get into electronics, and it can help you develop some awesome projects involving robotics, home ...

This won’t necessarily up-end the Arduino market, but it won’t have to — it’s an alternative that could help you finish DIY creations and teach you a thing or two about code and hardware ...

[Chris Hulbert] is making it easy for Arduino users to program MSP430 chips with a header file that allows you to compile Arduino sketches for the Launchpad. This makes sense, as the growing ...

The Digispark campaign launched 10 days ago as a tiny alternative to the versatile Arduino development board, easily surpassing project founder Erik Kettenburg's goal of $5,000 to fund the first ...