I've had a few projects over the past few years using the TI Stellaris Launchpad. It's nothing particularly special - just a Cortex-M4 based LM4F120 MCU at up to 80 MHz with 256 KiB of Flash and 32 KiB of SRAM, an RGB LED and an on-board USB programmer - but it's pretty cheap and I've gotten to know it quite well.
