May 4, 2013

Lalalandrus writes about debricking his WRTG54 router with a MSP430 Launchpad. He ported TJTAG’s EJTAG Debrick Utility, built for the Arduino, with a few pin changes and #defines. He had to get the baudrate down from 115200bps, since 9600bps is the maximum baud rate supported by the Launchpad. I ported the code to a MSP430. Changing pinouts should be...

May 2, 2013

After winning a FREE PCB Coupon from the Dangerous Prototypes’ free PCB drawer, Indian Tinkerer got himself Boseji’s MSP4305310 Breakout Board to play with. This was his first time soldering SMD… and he did pretty well. Schematics are available on Boseji’s blog page.   Via Dangerous...

Apr 30, 2013

The  Booster BoosterPack is a LiPo Battery Pack and USB Charger Bluehash has been working on. This is a LiPo BoosterPack I have been working during my downtime . I named it Booster since it is a power pack   This should be perfect for  wireless projects or for those times you need to be away from a PC. The battery needs to be charged through the...

Apr 29, 2013

Alasdair Allan, from Make magazine recently stripped open the  SensorTag, which is a Bluetooth Low Energy development kit by TI. The Tag consists of a C953H barometric pressure sensor, KXTJ9 accelerometer,  MAG3110 magnetometer and the IMU-3000 MEMS gyroscope, powered by a CR2032 coin cell and talk to the CC2541 Bluetooth chip. An application for the iPhone...

Apr 26, 2013

Rohit a.k.a the Indian Tinkerer writes about making a tone generator using a touchscreen for input and an MSP430G2553. Two appnotes, one from Atmel - AVR341: Four and five-wire Touch Screen Controller and the other from TI - 4-Wire and 8-Wire Resistive Touch-Screen Controller Using the MSP430 were used as references. The component count looks minimal...

Apr 25, 2013

IPushKarov shares his quick DIY Nikon IR Remote using the MSP430. Nikon DSLR remotes are a little expensive and the cheap ones from overseas take a quite some time to arrive. While waiting for his oversea order, IPushKarov came up with a simple remote using an MSP430G2231 which drives an IR-LED via a transistor. Code and schematics @his blog page. Click below...