Temboo Adds IoT Support For The Launchpad – Send Emails, SMS And More
What is it? The IoT has been in the news almost everyday in almost every technology news site. If you have been waiting to get onto the IoT bandwagon, this is the perfect opportunity. Temboo is a...
View ArticleBitlash Gets Ported To The MSP430
A couple of months back, RobLewis from the 43oh forums wrote about a command interpreter,Bitlash, running on the Pinoccio - an open source web enabled module. In short, Bitlash, written by Bill Roy, is...
View ArticleEnergia Code For The RF430 NFC Transponder
43oh forum member,Spirilis , today released Energia code to support the RF430CL330H Dynamic NFC Interface controller. The transponder is a Tag Type 4 device with an NFC interface and I2C/SPI host...
View ArticleRun Sketches In Parallel With The Newly Released Energia-MT For The MSP432
The Energia folks have been busy these past few months trying to pack in MSP432 Launchpad support into the framework. The MT in the new Energia-MT, refers to multi-tasking. A simple example to...
View ArticleMSP432 LaunchPad Pin Map Look Up for Energia15
Forum member, Rei Vilo, releases a set of high definition pin maps for any Launchpad that has Energia support. His latest is the one for the MSP432 Launchpad – EXP432P401R. The latest version of...
View ArticleDerek Molloy Walks Through The MSP432 Launchpad And The Two IDEs – CCS and...
Derek Molloy is a lecturer at Dublin City University. On the internet he is known for his wonderful walkthrough videos on the BeagleBone. He recently got his hands on the new MSP432 Launchpad and walks...
View ArticleTutorials On Getting Started With Energia, TI-RTOS And MSP432
Rei Vilo, who writes for Embedded Computing has put up a list of OS fundamentals via tutorials using Energia and TI-RTOS. He uses the recently released MSP432 Launchpad as a base for his tutorials....
View ArticleCreating a Multi-Node Cloud-Connected Sensor Network with TI’s LaunchPad...
Adrian Fernandez, the Microcontroller Development Experience Manager at Texas Instruments, just finished hosting a Element 14 webinar on getting multiple sensor nodes(US 902-928MHz) connected to the...
View ArticleEnergia At Release 16 With FRAM AND CC3200 Multi-Threaded Support
A new version of Energia is now available for download. The new version includes bug fixes as well as new RTOS libraries. You can request support here. Support for MSP430 FR4133 and FR6989 based FRAM...
View ArticleQuick IoT App Integration With Blynk+CC3200 Launchpad+Energia
Blynk is a cool new entrant to the world of IoT. It started as a KickStarter project in January of this year and has officially launched this past month. It went passed its $10,000 goal raising $49,235...
View ArticleTiva-C FFT’s Your Signals
Wattnotion’s Shane Ormonde has written up a super simple application that samples an incoming signal, performs an FFT on it and outputs the frequencies to a PC for display. The firmware side code is...
View ArticleCount In The KHz-MHz Range In Energia Using The New CounterLib Library
Chicken, creator of dAISy, has released a new Energia Library for counting pulses in the kHz/MHz range. The library has the following five functions: start() initializes the timer peripheral and I/O...
View ArticleA Webinar And An Interview : Prototyping An Internet Connected Fall Detector...
Adrian Fernandes, TI’s Customer Experience Manager, will be prototyping an internet connected fall detector using the Educational BoosterPack MKII along with an MSP432 LaunchPad and a CC3100...
View ArticleHow To Measure An Energia Application’s Power Usage with EnergyTrace
While experimenting with an nRF24L01 radio and MSP430G2553 microcontroller powered by a super capacitor and solar panel, the need to better understand the energy usage became increasingly apparent. I...
View ArticleBeyond N-8-1 – Implementing UART Parity In Energia
Rick posted a patch for parity support in the latest revision(11/11/2015) of Energia. The patch currently only works for the MSP430G2553. I was trying to port a sketch that used the Serial port with...
View ArticleA Prototyping Companion For Your Launchpad – The Sidekick
Seeed, in collaboration with TI, will be releasing a new accessory to the Launchpad ecosystem. Aptly named the Sidekick, it plugs into a Launchpad on one side and a breadboard on the other. This setup...
View ArticlePrimer On Setting Up A MSP430 Development Environment On OSX
Nick has a short write-up on setting up a development environment for the MSP430 on OSX. A series of stale wikis and forum posts complicate the setup for cross-compiling code on OSX Yosemite 10.10.4...
View ArticleEnergia Development Animated Over Four Years
Rei Vilo prepared a video illustrating the evolution of Energia over the years. The first commit was late March 2012. The video was generated using Gource, recorded by QuickTime and then processed with...
View ArticleNew Energia 17 Release Brings SensorTag, Red Bear CC3200 And F28069M Support
A new version of Energia has been released. This version fixes alot of bugs from the previous version and also adds support for the following: Support for three new boards have been added added: CC2650...
View ArticleNew Energia Library – Rotary Encoder with Coarse/Fine Adustment
This is an Energia sketch designed to be used with a rotary encoder with push button. The difference is that input can be made coarser or finer by pushing the button. The need came about because I...
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