[GreyZephyr]

Thanks again for a great post. Not sure this really adds anything to the conversation, but felt that I should thank you again. For what its worth, I never thought you were dismissive of OOP; your original post seemed rather clear, if rather alpha in tone, that you thought the important thing was to use the tools at hand.

Funnily enough I was asking for the same reason that you had in mind: I have a child with an interest in robotics who recently hit the the limits of Mindstorms. Alas it has been 15 years since I last did any embedded programming so I am rather out of touch. (Indeed it has been a while since I have done any programming.) The silabs dev board seems to be an amazing deal in terms of the amount of peripherals and documentation available, thanks for pointing that out. I think I shall get one and have a fool around, it looks like great fun!