What should we do with the TI's Launchpad?

JS16 is a very minimal USBDM version based on MC9S08JS16, that supports HCS12, HCS08 and Coldfire V1 devices. It is easy to construct and may be initially programmed over the USB.

An attempt to simulate preemptive multithreading on 8bit MCUs.

The time kills me nowadays, so here are links to interesting projects, at least. Enjoy.

QP™ is a family of lightweight, open source, event-driven, state machine frameworks and real-time kernels for embedded microprocessors, MCUs, and DSPs.

Do you remember the old pocket PCs like the SHARP PC-1500, PC-1600 etc.? A small plastic brick with an ASCII keyboard and simple LCD.

It isn't a problem to create an uC-based device as an USB peripherial nowadays - there are a lot of chips with USB device capability, from FTDI to some PIC/USB, or OBDEV's USB software controller. But what to do if you need connect some USB peripherial to your device?

MicroVGA is low-cost VGA interface, providing 80x25 text mode (800x600 @ 60 Hz) / 16 colors. MicroVGA can be connected to microcontroller, thus it's an ideal solution for embedded applications.

A list of AVR and PIC common pitfalls by Ladyada.

Very useful library for everyone, who wants to deal with any SD/MMC card or other storage, works with FAT32, in applications such as MP3 players or data loggers.