[IAEP] [Sur] TI MSP430 running on XO 1 - Robotics!

[Dr. Gerald Ardito]

Peter,

That part worked perfectly!
I have just been used to the Arduino IDE, and so need to make a mental
change. And, more importantly, get more experience with the TI
Launchpad.

Thanks.
Gerald

On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 12:14 PM, Peter Robinson <pbrobinson at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 5:01 PM, Dr. Gerald Ardito
> <gerald.ardito at 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.bender at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 11:14 AM, Dr. Gerald Ardito
>>> <gerald.ardito at 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 <llwwwll77 at 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 <pbrobinson at gmail.com>
>>>>> escribió:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 2012/2/10 Yamaplos . <yamaplos at 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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