IAR Systems is offering the MSP-EXP430FR5739 Experimenter’s board as part of an IAR KickStart Kit. The kit includes Integrated TI MSP430FR5739 device, USB debugging and programming interface, 3-axis accelerometer, NTC thermistor for temperature sensing, 2 user input switches and a … Read more
A while ago we wrote about using cheap Nokia 1202 LCDs for projects. These LCDs come with a solderable connector, and are easy to interface over the I2C bus. Toxic239 made a frequency counter based on the MSP430 Launchpad and … Read more
Parker designed a MSP430 based 32 LED driver. His intends to use it as a VU meter, by reading a ADC line with the uC and turning LEDs on and of depending on the calculated VU level. Finished the VU. … Read more
Chemicaloliver has written a short post describing how to graph ez430 Chronos watch data in Processing. His post includes links to the source code, which is an extension of the earlier Processing code by Sean Brewer. Originally written in 2010, … Read more
If you missed it before, TI is offering the Chronos Watch as their current week’s deal at $24.50. The eZ430 deal includes the wireless enabled watch, CC1111 USB RF access point, and a CD containing software and documentation. A welcome … Read more
NJC was designing a home automation system, to control lights at preset intervals. He wanted to use the MSP430 Launchpad but found the high frequency clock source of the valueline MCU to be insufficiently accurate. He wrote this post on … Read more
JP Norair has been hacking away with the TI 433 MHz Chronos. My project is OpenTag, which is a 433 MHz centric IoT/M2M stack. It’s 433-centric because it implements DASH7 and because it makes design assumptions that multihop is not … Read more
Nathan Zimmerman has developed this PC GUI evaluation tool for the MSP430. Coded in VC++, the GUI allows control of all the peripherals on a MSP430 controller. He’s currently testing it using the MSP430G2553. This GUI would be very handy … Read more
Texas Instruments claims to have concocted an even lower power MSP430. The MSP430 Wolverine series uCs consume 100uA per MHz when active, and 360nA in standby. TI claim this is 50% less power consumption than any other micro. You can … Read more
Our friends at 43Oh.com are conducting a contest. They ask: “Do you know of any devices or gadgets in the wild open market that have MSP430 microcontrollers in them?” They will be giving a Capacitive Touch BoosterPack to one lucky … Read more
Greg Whitmore at Four-Three-Oh forum has written a quick how-to post on using the Bus Pirate to sniff SPI data on the MSP430. We’re reproducing the post here in its entirety with Greg’s permission.
Compare Texas Instruments MSP430 microcontrollers with this online tool. Differences are highlighted in red: This comparison engine has been developed using data found on TI homepage. As there are close to 400 types of MCUs at TI, it’s often difficult … Read more
asdf informs us that TI has the CC110L RF Module BoosterPack now in stock and available for $19. According to TI: The CC110L RF BoosterPack is a low-power wireless transceiver extension kit for use with the Texas Instruments MSP-EXP430G2 LaunchPad … Read more
Raj inform us that he recently finished writing a step-by-step guide for setting up the Code Composer Studio v4 build and debug environment for TI MSP430 Launchpad. You can read Raj’s tutorial at Embedded lab. Via the contact form.
video platformvideo managementvideo solutionsvideo player TI has introduced a sub-GHz spectrum analyzer using the SA430 chip. Known as the MSP-SA430-SUB1GHZ, the CC430 microcontroller that the SA430 is based on is a highly integrated system-on-chip featuring an on-board sub-GHz radio chip … Read more
Texas Instruments just announced the addition of F563X and F663X lines of microcontrollers to their MSP430 range. Here is the feature list of the new devices: More memory options with 256kB flash and 18kB RAM allow the addition of wireless … Read more
Simpleavr writes to inform us of his project using the TI Launchpad to play “bad apple” on a Nokia 5110 LCD breakout. This was his entry into the 43Oh project of the month contest. He notes that the Launchpad can … Read more
Bluehash from 43Oh writes to inform us of today’s TiDeal: the MSP430F5529 USB Experimenter’s Board. “On the board itself is USB connectivity, a five-button capacitive touch pad, a MicroSD slot with a 1GB card included, a 102 X 64 dot … Read more
Manuel Garbe writes to inform us: TI has just released a new boosterpack for his MSP430 launchpad It is the CC110L RF BoosterPack, an RF shield (from 433 to 915 , perfect for my chronos.) There is a lot of … Read more
Sergio Campama has written this tutorial on installing MSPGCC Uniarch. “Uniarch is an initiative to unify all the work left behind by mspgcc3 and mspgcc4, while also separating the boundaries between the compiler and TI header files. This ‘branch’ of … Read more
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