Post : Preorder TI's ARM Cortex-M4 Launchpad for $5 delivered
URL : http://hackaday.com/2012/08/31/preorder-tis-arm-cortex-m4-launchpad-for-5-delivered/
Posted : August 31, 2012 at 11:30 am
Author : Mike Szczys
Tags : arm, launchpad, lm4f120h5qr, stellaris, ti
Categories : Microcontrollers

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Texas Instruments just open preorders for the new Stellaris LaunchPad (https://estore.ti.com/Stellaris-LaunchPad.aspx) . The boards won't ship until the end of September, but if you don't mind the wait you can get one for $4.99 including delivery (we'd wager non-U.S. addresses have to pay for delivery, but leave a comment if you know for sure).

We routinely pay more in shipping for parts orders so we already jumped at the opportunity and put in our own order. Earlier in the month we heard the first murmurs about the device (http://hackaday.com/2012/08/02/tis-inexpensive-piccolo-and-stellaris-dev-boards/) . We're glad to see they hit the $4.99 target price, but the TI website mentions that this is a promotional price that will be available for a limited time only. The board boasts an ARM Cortex-M4 processor, the Stellaris LM4F120H5QR (http://www.ti.com/product/lm4f120h5qr) . It includes 256 KB of flash memory, 32 KB of SRAM, and more peripherals than you can shake a stick at. To get you up and running quickly they've included two user buttons and an RGB LED. As with the 8-bit Launchpad, the board acts as its own programmer. It has a microUSB jack, but they've included a micro B to USB A cable in the kit to make sure you don't need to also put in a cable order.

We'll give a follow-up post once we finally get our hands on the board. We hope this will be easy to get working with a Linux box!

[Thanks Chris]

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Huh - Morgan just ordered two (the max for any order thru TI). He went directly to the TI website - ask him for the details.