[Markus] had a TI MSP430 sitting around from the LaunchPad kit he bought a while back. He didn’t know what to do with it, but eventually decided that it would make a great miniature alarm clock.

MSP430 support was added to GCC by a group headed by Dimitry Diky and Chris Lichti. Their project includes the gcc compiler, linker, libraries, gdb debugger and a closed-source interface to the ...