Archive for the ‘MSP430 MCU’ Category
LED POV magic with MSP430
This simple project exploits the Persistence Of Vision (POV) of 8 LEDS connected to a port on the MSP430G2211 MCU, this is the chip I had available but the project should also work on other 14-pin devices of the same family. I’ve built this boards as a New Year’s present for my nephews. Schematics The […]
Category: MSP430 MCU , Programmazione
openchronos Hello World tutorial
This short tutorial is about getting started with the development of OpenChronos NG firmware for the eZ430Chronos watch under Ubuntu Linux LTS. This nice development tool in a watch was also described in my previous article: http://www.itopen.it/2013/11/28/the-hackable-watch-a-wearable-msp430-mcu/. Preparing the development environment Starting the development with OpenCronos NG wasn’t the easiest thing I’ve done recently: most difficult […]
Category: MSP430 MCU , Programmazione
The hackable watch: a wearable MSP430 MCU
It’s quite some time now that I started programming with low-cost MSP430 MCUs development kits, I must admit that sometimes I need more RAM and flash but I like this MCU a lot: its advanced clock configuration options, the 16bit Von-Neumann architecture and the low power modes make this MCU an ideal option for battery […]
Category: MSP430 MCU
New Energia LedControl library
Today I was really tired of my everyday web dev job and started playing with a spare MSP430G2553, an 8×8 led matrix and an AS1106 (a 2.7 V MAX7219 clone). After a few tries, I decided to port the great LedControl library to LaunchPad Energia. I had to move the chip initialization from the class […]
Category: MSP430 MCU , Tech
Driving a pair of 7 segments display with MSP430 Energia libraries
This is my second experiment with Energia LaunchPad boards. This time I wanted to see how difficult could be to adapt for the LaunchPad a program which I originally developed for Arduino. If are interested in how I did setup my Linux box for working with the LaunchPad and the Energia libraries, I’ve described the whole […]
Category: Arduino , MSP430 MCU , Programmazione
MSP430 LaunchPad Energia development on Linux
A new baby is sitting on my desktop: yesterday arrived the MSP430 powered Launchpad development board. These few notes describe the steps I did to setup a development environment for this board on Ubuntu Linux 12.04 LTS 64bit. The launchpad board Update: at the beginning of March 2012 TI raised the price of LaunchPad board […]
Category: Linux , MSP430 MCU , Programmazione
