“The MSP430 is a great little micro, and with some proper marketing, it could easily have provided an alternative to the AVR and PIC. However unclear, obfuscating, archaic documentation, spread very thinly over the web has made this little micro the poor relation of the microcontroller world. I write this having just spend a considerable amount of time in February trying to provide an effective solution for programming one of our products, an MSP430 based force gauge, which is being produced by a new supplier.”