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Yea, the I2C Explorer has a bus-pirate like way of communicating from a pc through the uart to an i2c bus. It uses the builtin USI of the msp430G2231 to handle receiving and transmitting. It is nearly exactly what the TI description of how to use the USI for I2C master shows, put in C code. MSP430 Family Guide with USI description (PDF Page 449): http://focus.ti.com/lit/ug/slau144e/slau144e.pdf What you want is USI Slave though. It does not implement that. TI has great USI Slave examples that run on the msp430g line (I have not personally tried them). TI also has a precreated I2C USI

be practical, if u are driving individual leds (or a few leds per segment), you need 4 x 9 segment = 36 transistors, it is a lot to do on a breadboard. each transistor has 3 pin, each led 2 pins, each resistor 2 pins will need hundreds of tie-points and the fact that breadboard are connected column-wise (5 points per column), it will be difficult if impossible to lay them out properly. switching from blue to red led is a wise move, u can drive them leds directly if eventually u want to do that. for blues, its not possible because of voltage being too low. get a few red leds and try laying

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