Lpc2000

Well,

worth mentioning is the fairly new "Education board" from Embedded Artists.
http://www.embeddedartists.com/products/education/index.php

An LPC2148 forms the heart of the system with some nice on-board 
peripherals like SD and USB - but that's what most other also have - and 
an 8x8 LED matrix controlled via SPI, a small motor (with PWM controlled 
driver circuit), a 3 pin header for a standard servo motor as used in RC 
controlled systems and a 2x16 LCD.
A nice board for those who like to get some ARM7/LPC21xx hands on but do 
not like to solder anything themselves.
With the expansion boards that will come out you could even go ahead 
with Ethernet, Bluetooth, Zigbee, a graphical LCD and even a GPS and GSM 
board are announced.
I've got one of these boards but did not yet have the time to play with 
it too much (work is a nice thing, just a shame it takes up so much of 
my free time ...) but it 'feels' great.

If, then there are only two small demerits: there is just one normal 
push button switch (the other switch is a joystick) and the color of the 
board is dull-green instead of the flaming red of the other boards :o)

There must be more of these boards with lots of devices to play with 
from other vendors. I noticed that Olimex now also uses the flaming red 
color for some of their PCBs and their LPC-MT-2138 is great for creating 
small user interface centric devices without having to do any soldering.
Maybe they will also follow, there must be a market for these (fairly 
cheap) boards that can be used for embedded programming courses.

Rob