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

[Peter Robinson]

On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 5:32 PM, Dr. Gerald Ardito
<gerald.ardito at gmail.com> wrote:
> Peter,
>
> That part worked perfectly!

Cool! BTW is that on a XO 1.75?

> 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.

You can have arduino IDE too with a "yum install arduino" I believe.

Peter

> 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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