Jan 23, 2012

Kentec Electronics recently announced the release of their Touch Sensor Booster.  The BoosterPack includes a converter board and an ITO glass capacitive touch sensor, priced reasonably at $17.00 The 3.5 inch ITO Glass Capacitive Touch sensor and BoosterPack offers a unique solution for touch-enabled applications.  The ITO Capacitive Touch BoosterPack...

Jan 22, 2012

Hello, there seems to be alot of BoosterPacks coming up around the web, especially in the 43oh BoosterPack Forum. We would like to let you know about having your BoosterPacks sponsored for $10. This has been running is the Forums since the past two months. It would be good if more people knew about it, so here it is. You also get an open invitation to sell...

Jan 22, 2012

A few weeks back we were able to talk to an SDcard using the famous PetiteFaTFS as the file system on an MSP430G2553 using the USCI module. The code as it is right now supports format, open and read. Write support will not be too hard. Commands have to be created for the parser. The above image shows the SDCard on the new 43oh SDCard Booster pack. The good...

Jan 21, 2012

Mtlevine0 used his Launchpad to connect serially to a Twitter handle via a Python script. A LED display is connected to the Launchpad to display the updates. This would be very handy to control and actuate devices over the web via Twitter. His python script and msp430 code is shared in this forum thread. A Python script running on my PC fetches the most recent...

Jan 21, 2012

The MSP430 USB Developers package has received an update to include MSC or Mass Storage Class features along with bug fixes and enhancements. Updates: New MSC feature. The USB API now supports CDROM by supporting a subset of the MultiMedia Command Set. A new M5 example demonstrates the new CDROM feature. The USB Stack now supports a Non-composite mode where...

Jan 20, 2012

Peter Bigot, maintainer of mspgcc, has upped the version of the compiler. The primary purpose of this release was a thorough review of all peephole optimizations.  Most were removed as there was no evidence that they still applied. Conditional branches were completely reworked to more accurately model condition codes. Correct modelling of condition codes also...

Jan 19, 2012

This application report describes a low-cost, highly-flexible composite USB keyboard implementation based onMSP430F5xx/MSP430F6xx families. Schematics and software are included allowing for an easy implementation and customization. It uses the MSP430 USB Developers Package available for free on TI. Features: • 101 keys, 2 LEDs: standard HID keyboard and...

Jan 19, 2012

Olimex announced the release of a loaded starter kit version using the MSP430F5510(32Kb Flash, 4kb RAM). It comes with an LCD and a Lipo battery charger too. The description says there is USB bootloader support too. Features: MCU: MSP430F5510 with 32K Bytes Program Flash, 4K Bytes RAM, 25Mhz LCD display 8 alphanumeric micro SD card connector LiPo...