Actually, I found the board on the Internet and the price
was affordable for my students. At the time, I did not
know of any other board in that price range, so I went with it. We don't have any kind of course like this and
I felt the students really need to be exposed to this
kind of material. They have aready had a course on
assembly language and one on digital logic as a
pre-req, so hopefully, they will be put on the put
to enlightenment in one of those classes. (I'm
software, not hardware. ;-) )