---
title: "Long Overdue LaunchPad Review"
description: "\\ Recently I realized most of my projects were all Arduino-based. There are lots of other prototyping platforms available in the market, and the TI LaunchPad, based on the…"
canonical: "https://www.baldengineer.com/launchpad-review.html"
author: "James Lewis"
date: "2012-09-30T14:13:26Z"
lastmod: "2015-03-24T18:23:30Z"
categories: ["blog","microcontrollers","reviews"]
tags: ["enginerd","launchpad","video"]
---

# Long Overdue LaunchPad Review


[YouTube video u6wf2WUv1A8](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6wf2WUv1A8)


Recently I realized most of my projects were all Arduino-based.  There are lots of other prototyping platforms available in the market, and the TI LaunchPad, based on the MSP430 is one of them.  In fact, I have had one of these boards sitting in my box of stuff ever since they came out.  At $5, they because an impulse purchase when I was buying some other stuff.

So, I dusted off the original box and recorded opening it up.  Let's see how it works.