Is developing on an Arduino too slow? Are Phidgets too expensive? When might you use one or the other? Hackaday regular [Ken] breaks down what he learned from three experimental time trials. The ma… ...

Energia is also a community driven, Arduino-like IDE that allows the MSP430 line to use a lot of Arduino code examples and libraries. Makes development just as easy.

Arduino Integrated Development Environment (IDE) is open-source software for writing code and uploading it to any Arduino board. The software runs on Windows 7 and newer, Linux, and MacOS 10.10 or ...