Spectrum 2013

I took my grade 9 class to Spectrum 2013 on Thursday morning.  On Friday night, I returned with my kids.  I also met a former Walter Murray student who told me about the cheap TI MSP430 microcontroller.  I had mentioned I was considering Arduino, but it was still expensive.  He said the MSP430 promoted "proper C programming".  Arduino uses its own version of C.  Interesting!