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

[Dr. Gerald Ardito]

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 <yamaplos at 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.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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