Damn, it looks like they have increased the price on the launchpad since I picked it up. It's now $10. It comes with two micros though with separate use cases,

Damn, it looks like they have increased the price on the launchpad since I picked it up. It's now $10. It comes with two micros though with separate use cases, so you can use the launchpad for prototyping before putting it on a breadboard.