Seven dollars might buy you a burger at an upscale burger joint, or you can get a complete microcontroller development kit from STMicroelectronics. Most likely now holding the throne of lowest cost complete development kit (previous holder was TI’s $10 EZ430 USB stick?), the $7 STM8S-Discovery includes a detachable programmer, target board, and prototyping board. The target board hosts an 8-bit STM8S105C6T6 microcontroller running at 16Mhz, with 32K of flash, 2k of RAM, and 1K of EEPROM. This puts it in similar territory as the AVR 8-bit microcontrollers used in the Arduino boards. At this price onboard devices are scarce, but nice touches include a selectable 5v/3.3v jumper, a capacitive touch sensor, an onboard LED, and a prototyping area with through-hole and an SO-16 SMT footprint. And it has nice rubber feet to boot.
Here’s the pic goodness, note the fancy retail-ish packaging:
- STM8S-Discovery in package
- STM8S-Discovery (front)
- STM8S-Discovery (back)
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