Unfortunally I noticed to late that the launchpad their msp430 devices have no hardware UART, so I had to look for a solution.
I decided to stay in the msp430 family and my eye felt on the MPS430F2132, it has the following benefits;
1x Hardware UART
1x Hardware I2C
2x timers (ideal to control my TEC's)
28 pins instead of 14 or 20
more flash
So, a tiny shield that can be mounted on the launchpad is under construction, and I hope it will be ready by friday :).
It is a shield because I want to be able to easily program and debug it, and since it has some more I/O's I added some features.
1x RGB led
1x usb-rs232 converter (these pins are on port 3)
1x buzzer
5x header for I2C
The sad thing is that I have to redesign my protoshield because the I2C pins no longer match...
