LariSan

@spirillis
 
You are amazing. 
I have been so overwhelmed with getting things going for this huge education show we are doing in Atlanta, when I came in and saw your package on my desk. 
I opened it and immediately loved the FTDI breakout board , but what I REALLY REALLY REALLY love (I can't stress that enough here) is the adapter board you made! Not sure if I'm just late to finding out about it until that moment it came out of the envelope, but you have made my ENTIRE week. I don't have time yet to write the blog post I need to about LaunchPad + Beaglebone in Education, but your "BoosterPack Cape Adapter" fits perfectly!
 
I was so psyched that I actually rescheduled a in person meeting to be on the phone so I could solder the headers on and try it out
 
Anyways, THANK you for sending me a few samples and when I get back from ASEE, I hope to have the post out on the e2e blog roll so you can see how your board fits in with all of the other University tools!
 
And yes, I will be sharing them around the office!
 

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@spirillis
 
You are amazing. 
I have been so overwhelmed with getting things going for this huge education show we are doing in Atlanta, when I came in and saw your package on my desk. 
I opened it and immediately loved the FTDI breakout board , but what I REALLY REALLY REALLY love (I can't stress that enough here) is the adapter board you made! Not sure if I'm just late to finding out about it until that moment it came out of the envelope, but you have made my ENTIRE week. I don't have time yet to write the blog post I need to about LaunchPad + Beaglebone in Education, but your "BoosterPack Cape Adapter" fits perfectly!
 
I was so psyched that I actually rescheduled a in person meeting to be on the phone so I could solder the headers on and try it out
 
Anyways, THANK you for sending me a few samples and when I get back from ASEE, I hope to have the post out on the e2e blog roll so you can see how your board fits in with all of the other University tools!
 
And yes, I will be sharing them around the office!
 

Untitled by laraswanland, on Flickr
 
(rest of the photos: 
)

@spirillis
 
You are amazing. 
I have been so overwhelmed with getting things going for this huge education show we are doing in Atlanta, when I came in and saw your package on my desk. 
I opened it and immediately loved the FTDI breakout board , but what I REALLY REALLY REALLY love (I can't stress that enough here) is the adapter board you made! Not sure if I'm just late to finding out about it until that moment it came out of the envelope, but you have made my ENTIRE week. I don't have time yet to write the blog post I need to about LaunchPad + Beaglebone in Education, but your "BoosterPack Cape Adapter" fits perfectly!
 
I was so psyched that I actually rescheduled a in person meeting to be on the phone so I could solder the headers on and try it out
 
Anyways, THANK you for sending me a few samples and when I get back from ASEE, I hope to have the post out on the e2e blog roll so you can see how your board fits in with all of the other University tools!
 
And yes, I will be sharing them around the office!
 

Untitled by laraswanland, on Flickr
 
(rest of the photos: 
)

@spirillis
 
You are amazing. 
I have been so overwhelmed with getting things going for this huge education show we are doing in Atlanta, when I came in and saw your package on my desk. 
I opened it and immediately loved the FTDI breakout board , but what I REALLY REALLY REALLY love (I can't stress that enough here) is the adapter board you made! Not sure if I'm just late to finding out about it until that moment it came out of the envelope, but you have made my ENTIRE week. I don't have time yet to write the blog post I need to about LaunchPad + Beaglebone in Education, but your "BoosterPack Cape Adapter" fits perfectly!
 
I was so psyched that I actually rescheduled a in person meeting to be on the phone so I could solder the headers on and try it out
 
Anyways, THANK you for sending me a few samples and when I get back from ASEE, I hope to have the post out on the e2e blog roll so you can see how your board fits in with all of the other University tools!
 
And yes, I will be sharing them around the office!
 

Untitled by laraswanland, on Flickr
 
(rest of the photos: 
)

Video presentation might be tough with all the noise - although the NC Faire was awfully crowded (they're looking for a bigger venue for next year).  We need a cool Piktochart like @@LariSan has been making
 https://magic.piktochart.com/output/e2eeaeab-ad9a-4806-9b01-be2daf56e4ea#.UbEDMqJEo40.twitter

@@LariSan
 
Thanks for your comment. It would look great on one of your proto plates. You may want to put one together, it only requires a few common components.
 
@@RobG
 
I just added buzzer support (don't understand why I had missed that). Now the P1.3 button will cycle thru (1) no output, (2) P1.6 green LED output, (3) P2.6 buzzer output. The buzzer output you will see the bars not showing up at what it should be. I would suspect it being the frequency response / limit of both the buzzer and the condenser microphone.
 
You may want to do another pull if you are building. Also we need the -lm flag to link the math library.
 
Code is not optimized. They are places that could use some in-line assembler to speed things up if anyone is interested.

Features:
 
8 bit integer FFT 32 samples at 500Hz separation shows 16 amplitudes of 250Hz, 500Hz, 750Hz,....... 5.75Khz, 6.75Khz, 7.75Khz non-linear partial logarithm map to show amplitudes, limited as resolution has been reduced for 8 bit FFT LM358 two stage mic pre-amp at 100x 100x gain (can be improve vastly w/ better op-amps) utilize Educational BoosterPack; mic for input, potentiometer for pre-amp biasing draws power from launchpad square signal generator from TA0.1 toggling, good for initial testing  
 

 
 
A longer video showing off the action. Although it may not show well on youtube, but I am surprise w/ the result (consider being a "toy"). The system is very responsive via the microphone and there are no annoying noise levels (I think it's w/ the pre-amp biasing and the reduced resolution.
 
I had built similar one w/ AVR before and I found that it's a lot easier to work w/ on msp430. The timer architecture and being 16 bit is an advantage here.
 

 
 
code to follow..

Thanks
 
I am going to post it on TI forum when finished. My friends here are more tolerating on my incomplete work.
 
Will have more details and code when things progresses.
 
Right now it can do 16 bands w/ 32 samples or 32 bands w/ 64 samples, I display only 16 as display is confined by the LCD. It measures up to 16Khz in either case.
 
At 32 bands, It's 500Hz between amplitudes and I can pick 500Hz, 1Khz, 1.5Khz on low end, with 12Khz, 14Khz, 16Khz on the high end. But still I want to find a way to do have 60Hz, 120Hz, 200Hz etc at the low end of the spectrum. Will try to do two pass w/ different sampling rate and see if it could work.
 
Also thanks Rei Vilo for the excellent review on the BoosterPack, I relied on the information / links when building this.

Make sure you save some space in your suitcase for my display board
 
Still need to secure all the boards and run power to six of them.
 

neat, i am always losing the little rubber feet on my LPs. these "wings" make LP sit squarely w/o solder joints rubbing your desk.

Dont worry about that.. haha.
 
If bluehash allows, I can print and sell some, cover some plastic cost, of course Shapeway's quality will be better.
 
$2 each + $2 for handling  +  shipping + packaging, (air mail should less than $3 - 6 to 12 days, i have to check)
 
Will send some to bluehash for POTM give aways.

http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:92339
 
Just to share a simple bumper I made for MSP430 Launchpad.
 

I'm having issues with posting things (chalk it up to the fact I'm slightly special needs when it comes to using Internet Explorer), but Mike at US Water Rockets sent me this video that I thought was a neat solution to the male headers!
 
http://www.uswaterrockets.com/MSP430/horizontal_stabilizer/project.htm
 

I'm having issues with posting things (chalk it up to the fact I'm slightly special needs when it comes to using Internet Explorer), but Mike at US Water Rockets sent me this video that I thought was a neat solution to the male headers!
 
http://www.uswaterrockets.com/MSP430/horizontal_stabilizer/project.htm
 

I'm having issues with posting things (chalk it up to the fact I'm slightly special needs when it comes to using Internet Explorer), but Mike at US Water Rockets sent me this video that I thought was a neat solution to the male headers!
 
http://www.uswaterrockets.com/MSP430/horizontal_stabilizer/project.htm
 

I'm having issues with posting things (chalk it up to the fact I'm slightly special needs when it comes to using Internet Explorer), but Mike at US Water Rockets sent me this video that I thought was a neat solution to the male headers!
 
http://www.uswaterrockets.com/MSP430/horizontal_stabilizer/project.htm
 

I'm having issues with posting things (chalk it up to the fact I'm slightly special needs when it comes to using Internet Explorer), but Mike at US Water Rockets sent me this video that I thought was a neat solution to the male headers!
 
http://www.uswaterrockets.com/MSP430/horizontal_stabilizer/project.htm
 

I'm having issues with posting things (chalk it up to the fact I'm slightly special needs when it comes to using Internet Explorer), but Mike at US Water Rockets sent me this video that I thought was a neat solution to the male headers!
 
http://www.uswaterrockets.com/MSP430/horizontal_stabilizer/project.htm
 

Not sure what you mean by reasonable, but this post may help you : http://e2e.ti.com/support/microcontrollers/msp430/f/166/t/42199.aspx

Hi all,
 
The Bay Area Makerfaire is being held next weekend, I'm interested in knowing if anyone is going or
exhibiting any msp430 projects.
 
MakerFaire is a huge diy project get together covering all interests. http://makerfaire.com/
The microcontroller area is really huge, must be 100 exhibits. Unfortunately last year it was 90% Arduino, Very few MSP430 exhibits.    We'll be there doing our bit with the mpy projects booth. 
 
-mpymike

@@Fred I absolutely love the black and grabbed a red breadboard to try it out. 
 
It feels a little "dark side" , which is okay with me
 

 
 

@@Fred I absolutely love the black and grabbed a red breadboard to try it out. 
 
It feels a little "dark side" , which is okay with me
 

 
 

I'm glad you like it, and I hope you approve of the tweaks to your design to fit round the corner pieces.

@@Fred I absolutely love the black and grabbed a red breadboard to try it out. 
 
It feels a little "dark side" , which is okay with me
 

 
 

Here's Jason's (on Twitter @Jadon) video from Design West, you do have to register, but it's a presentation. 
https://event.on24.com/eventRegistration/EventLobbyServlet?target=registration.jsp&eventid=605328&sessionid=1&key=DD444ABA182A28C9A98D4B4395B413C9&sourcepage=register