May 17, 2012

Hello Everyone, a quick announcement. TI has been kind enough to invite me to the Bay Area Maker Faire at their booth. They wanted me to showcase all the boards the community has made. I think we have alot to show and the best part is people can see the BoosterPacks/boards in person and how versatile the LaunchPad platform can be. This will be on the 19th...

May 14, 2012

Longhorn Engineer has been developing a 32 LED driver PCB to use as a VU display. The LEDs are signalled via four 74HC595 serial shift registers through a MSP4302231. Finished the VU. Changed the name to a 32 LED Driver as that is what it really is. The idea for the VU is to sample the sense line via an ADC a couple times and average the value. Then the MSP430...

When we wrote about the new Wolverine Development Kit a few months back in February, there was not any information about it. In the attached video, Bill Wong of Electronic Design magazine talks with Jacob Borgeson of Texas Instruments about the Wolverine, the world’s lowest power micro-controller platform.   Via...

Apr 19, 2012

Rob has made quite a bit of progress on his Ethernet BoosterPack. He’s using the Wiznet W5200 chip which is a harware TCP/IP embedded Ethernet controller that enables easier internet connection for embedded systems using SPI. He’s using the WIZ820io board as a reference for the BoosterPack. You can keep track of his build thread here. Probable...

Apr 18, 2012

The $4.30 LCD is a member developed BoosterPack. Buying this  gives the creator Sugar Addict alot of deserved karma and also helps the community. He’s subsidized this board for the community, so alot of thanks to him. Please visit his build thread for more information. The board has a Nokia 7110 LCD with 96*64  pixels and fits over your Launchpad. It...

Apr 13, 2012

  Larsie, creator of the MSP430 Online Editor, got his first batch of SPI B/W LCD displays. He’s not quite sure yet what to do with them yet. He made a watch with a similar LCD, but with the I2C version. The case is 3-D printed from Shapeways. He’s taking feature requests right now in his build thread. The display  is SPI-based, but it uses a 9-bit...

Apr 7, 2012

Kerry writes about using the Launchpad as an external programmer for MSP430G devices. You can do this via SBW or Spy-Bi-Wire using the TST and RST pins, which correspond to the Data and Clock SBW functions respectively. To program an external MSP430G2 device, you need to simply remove all the jumpers from the LaunchPad develpment board and connect the TEST, RST...

Apr 6, 2012

Rob has started development on an Ethernet  board, which can be used, both as a BoosterPack and as a standalone device. The controller chip is the Wiznet W5200(W5100 or W5300 are options). The board might also have support for both SMD and DIP versions of the MSP430G. Make sure you voice your suggestions in his thread. Here are some specs so far: 1....