You need the data sheet of the micro: http://www.ti.com/lit/ds/symlink/lm4f120h5qr.pdf http://www.ti.com/lit/ds/symlink/lm4f120h5qr.pdf The schematics of the b

You need the data sheet of the micro: http://www.ti.com/lit/ds/symlink/lm4f120h5qr.pdf http://www.ti.com/lit/ds/symlink/lm4f120h5qr.pdf The schematics of the board: <not yet released ?> And a toolchain. Usually you work in C, TI has a tool based on eclipse and gcc, TI Code Composer Studio: http://www.ti.com/tool/ccstudio http://www.ti.com/tool/ccstudio BTW TI Stellaris MCU comes with some really good libraries that are included in ROM. Usually what happens with this boards is that they're used for a lot of different projects by hackers. Expect to see a lot of activity in space like you can see on hackaday: http://hackaday.com/tag/launchpad/ http://hackaday.com/tag/launchpad/