STM8S-Discovery: Microcontrollers reach a new low

ST did not do much on the software, tool and community side lately. The Atmel ATmega processor, which has been well accepted by the open source in Arduino moves ST to this subsidizing PR and marketing approach. An interesting example how influential open source can get and how careful a chip company has to be with the overall system of the product, not only the silicon.

Buy it from DigiKey for $6.65 - http://search.digikey.com/scripts/DkSearch/dksus.dll?WT.z_ci...

Looks like it would be useful to have one or two lying around for misc. projects.

I ordered 2 from them last night, right after I saw the OP and before there were any comments here. I figured at that price they were well worth experimenting with.

The STM8S-DISCOVERY is among the items offered as free samples by ST. You can request one here: https://my.st.com/esample/app?page=basket

If it builds a community it could really stand to challenge Arduino, especially if someone develops an intuitive software environment for it.

Indeed the community will be created. In fact I know ST is planning to generate a lot of examples