I've used several of these boards but I'm still not sure what "Internet of Things" actually means beyond marketing hype, unless it is just a new name for what we used to call "embedded computing".
From a technical point of view, the TI stuff was great for starting out. Their Sensortag is a great little bit of hardware for getting your brain wrapped around embedded dev, plenty of code samples (for both the firmware and integrations). OTA updating the firmware from an iOS/Android app is great too.
That said, the requirement of using IAR to compile (which is a minimum of $2.5k after the 30 day trial) sucks pretty hard.
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[ 4.2 ms ] story [ 26.0 ms ] threadThat said, the requirement of using IAR to compile (which is a minimum of $2.5k after the 30 day trial) sucks pretty hard.