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Raspberry Pi Pico 2, our new $5 microcontroller board, on sale now
(www.raspberrypi.com)
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
They tried, look at the TI Launchpad boards. They are still around but less emphasized now. Some of them are actually pretty nice, or were during their day. The originally MSP430 one sold for a long time for $4.30 and later ones were in the $10-20 range depending.