It isn’t much trouble programming one of TI’s MSP430 chips, but outside of the official Flash Emulation Tool, TI doesn’t make programming one of these microcontrollers cheap. The most ...

Check out this 6-pin MSP430 microcontroller ... [Greg] simply cut off eight of the unneeded pins (four from each end). Well, it might be a stretch to call them unneeded since he cut the ground ...