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and microcontrollers.
Nokia Internet Tablets I've ported a few applications I find useful to these tablets - and the earlier 770. Texas Instruments MSP430 At present I'm still finding my way with this device. In the photo you can see three TI EZ430-T2012 boards bought from Farnell. These boards make experimenting very easy, you just plug them in to the EZ430-F2013 USB programmer, and once programmed can run stand alone from a 3V lithium watch battery. As supplied the boards have 14 plated holes at 0.1" pitch. For hardware prototyping I soldered on some "header" pins from an old PC motherboard - the battery holder, cable and the small 32kHz watch crystal came from the same source. The inspiration for this was Sivan Toledo's I2C interfaced IR remote - here. This arrangement works fine, but I then found some 0.1" pitch IC socket strips and decided that for my purposes they would be easier to work with - thin solid wire will push in, so no bulky cable required.
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