Yes, I have continued doing some with MSP430s with very limited time.
No, I have not done much documenting, alas.
My biggest accomplishment so far has been putting together a MSP430 and
L293D - With that arrangement I can run either a pair of DC motors
forward or aft independently, getting full control, or a bipolar step
motor, with the only addition of a battery and a capacitor. The way I
have it running now I actually have the MSP430 away from the Launchpad -
I use the Launchpad merely as a programmer, otherwise the setup is just
the 2 ICs and one capacitor - all coding using an XO 1.
see the tracked vehicle in
http://askjerry.info
Which I am using as part of activities with http://kidbot.org
Now that there is some need :-), I might get myself moving toward
documenting.
BTW, you can sign up with TI.com to get free samples - simply use an
.edu address - and they will send you for free extra MSP430 MCUs and L293Ds.
On 09/26/2012 09:43 PM, Dr. Gerald Ardito wrote:
Yama,
This worked great, and I wrote my first program (as indicated on the wiki).
You started a thread a while back about using the Launchpads for
robotics on the XO-1s. And this post turned me on to them. I have been
working with the Arduino, but these boards are pretty neat.
Have you been able to use them in robotics? Is your work documented somewhere.
Thanks.
Gerald
On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 9:34 PM, Yama Ploskonka yamap...@gmail.com wrote:
in Terminal:
sudo yum install mspdebug msp430-libc
It takes a while to complete, and seems to freeze a couple times for a
minute or so (some 5-10 minutes or so total)
In the more recent releases it finally works again - for at least a couple
major Sugar releases the redirecting to the Fedora repositories was mangled.
i.e.,
if you do not use the most recent releases of Sugar, follow this
http://processors.wiki.ti.com/index.php/OLPC_XO-1#Error_:_cannot_retrieve_repository_metada
Also, those earlier releases only handle MSP430 chips up to the 24xx family,
not the more recent 25xx
If you didn't have a better reason to update Sugar, this is a good one :-)
(even if the newest Sugar doesn't allow for use of the Gnome desktop besides
the image...)
On 09/26/2012 11:14 AM, Peter Robinson wrote:
On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 5:01 PM, Dr. Gerald Ardito
gerald.ard...@gmail.com wrote:
Yama and Walter,
Thanks.
I was not as clear as I wanted to be. Arduino (or Energia, an
alternative) would be fine. I was speaking about using mspdebug, which
is purely command line based.
mspdebug is packaged in Fedora so it should be as simple as yum
install mspdebug on an XO
Peter
On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 11:56 AM, Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.com
wrote:
On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 11:14 AM, Dr. Gerald Ardito
gerald.ard...@gmail.com wrote:
I have finally got to work on this.
Are there any GUI tools for the programming, or does it all have to be
via command line?
If you figure out some useful command lines, we could probably make a
TA plugin. (I've not got my hands of the device yet.)
-walter
Thanks.
Gerald
On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 7:50 AM, Luis Galindo llwwwl...@gmail.com wrote:
I just bought the TI MSP430 to test it with the Xo 1.0.
Thank you Yama :-)
Luis
El 10 de febrero de 2012 11:06, Peter Robinson pbrobin...@gmail.com
escribió:
2012/2/10 Yamaplos . yamap...@gmail.com:
The TI MSP430 chips are a very attractive alternative to add robotic
options for XO / Sugar users. Microcontrolers are the brain behind
many engineering hobby and educational pursuits, but many alternatives
are expensive or very hard to run in the XO.
The TI Launchpad board, with a G2553 microcontroler and an extra G2452
in the box, is available from Texas Instruments for $4.30 USD,
including shipping anywhere in the world (yes, hard to believe).
http://processors.wiki.ti.com/index.php/MSP430_LaunchPad_%28MSP-EXP430G2%29
Here are the instructions for running the Launchpad with the G2452.
Maybe if the next iteratiuon of Sugar uses Fedora 15 we will be able
to use the G2553 as well.
http://processors.wiki.ti.com/index.php/OLPC_XO-1
The next release will be based on F-17 but both those packages are
listed. You might want to use one of the test releases based on F-17
that I've released (new one coming soon) to make sure it all works OK
and feedback any issues to ensure we get them fixed for the final
release.
Peter
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