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Hi all, So basically instead of buying another one of those desk calendars that you tear of each day as it goes by I decided to make use of an epaper display from Sparkfun (that up until last week had been collecting dust) to create a digital daily calendar. The screen fits 20 16 segment digits on 2 lines. This gives enough room to display the current day of the week, and date. It is powered by a Li-ion cell from an old laptop battery, rated at 2.4Ah. (My estimates put the battery dying in about 200 years, as this draws ~20mAh for ~6 seconds every 24 hours ) This was originally

The launchpad only offers SBW debugging, not the 4 wire JTAG interface used on the 4619. You could however use the inbuilt serial bootloader (BSL).

Thanks for that. I didn't mention it but my way, I think, is only for gcc. I can't use IAR or CCS. due to the fact I'm on a mac.

I bought a bulk bag of 200 of these guys. used 64 on a 4x4x4 RGB LED matrix and destroyed/lost 9. So I'm left with 127. I really have enough unfinished electronic stuff in my room to keep me occupied for years, and I saw how much people here like RGB LEDs . These are common anode waterclear lens type, 5mm, 4 lead. The pins would need to be bent to fit into a breadboard/0.1" header. 10 for $5. reasonable offers may be accepted, with accompany project desc. Buyer pays shipping fees. (International airmail letter ~$5) Prices in USD payments via paypal

All modern MSP chips to my knowledge feature a small area of "information memory". To my knowledge this is the equivalent to internal EEPROM on a PIC or AVR. Using mspgcc we can easily store an array of constant data into infomem. all that is required is a single attribute tag. For example in my current project I have an array of font data. by moving it to infomem I saved 192 bytes of flash. (Strictly speaking infomem is flash :think: So don't be worried about wearing it out anymore than flash ) Anyway here is the code /* "Compressed" font data, in form 0b ABCD EFGH IJKL MNOP {A-P} r

Nice Innovative use of LEDs. In the video you stated that you were buffering the output from the LED. Is that to boost the voltage given out by the LED? I'm just interested if the MSP's inbuilt ADC could detect that voltage itself. OR if the inbuilt comparator of the MSP430G2211 could detect the small voltage change.

I Believe that the MSP430 is powerful enough to run as a USB 1.1 device. However you would have to write your own software to emulate it, very complex. There are a few larger MSP430s in the 5xx family that contain hardware USB 2.0 modules. and TI has documented many example projects to do with mass storage and Human interface devices.

I haven't actually given this much thought. for the video I used a sheet of paper with a hole cut in it to hide my launchpad. The launchpad has a 6 pin debug header which was powering the device

This small project combines a MSP430G2231, Found in the launchpad. and a small size 4 character dot matrix display. To create a very small scrolling LED display. Here is a video: (Looks like I can't embed it due to lack of posts ) Unfortunately the display features 4 distinct 5x7 modules inside of it with gaps between each one. But by scrolling text "behind" these gaps, the human brain can bee fooled into seeing a relatively legible assortment of letters. Scrolling speed can be altered currently the speed is nearish to the maximum I can easily distinguish. The two timer

I don't know exactly. make some pretty graphs Yes I shoot a compound bow at a local club. and yes again the PCB was from dorkbot, laen does an excellent job.

Hello fellow MSP430ers (is that the correct term), I've been using MSP430 chips for a couple months now, but this is my first time on this forum. Formalities aside, I have been working on a project to log flight pattens of arrows. I call it the arrowLog, it consists of 3 ICs : MSP430f2013, MMA7455, and a 25DF041a. As of right now I haven't written much software for it (made it blink some leds ) My hope is that I'll be able to use the MSP430 to read Acceleration data from the MMA7455 and store it in the dataflash IC. then later read out the results to a computer via a timer based UA