Micro-controller boards

Anybody program them? Like Arduino? Or the Alternatives? Have any good links? Hardware I should be using? Wasap?

STM have 32-bit MCUs for less than a dollar. Modern process technology has made it so that the price is determined by the number of package pins, then the amount of RAM and flash. The CPU core itself is pretty much free.

Also, those TI C2000 chips are DSPs, not recommended for beginners. They're a lot more complex and the tools suck.