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Hi everyone, It's weird to see all these familiar usernames after what 4 years? decided to take a break on all of this and now I am finally back in the embedded world, both professionally and hobby :D. So decided to see if anyone was still around

HI EVERYONE, Long time no see. University has been hard, not time for anything. But I am back into the MCU world! And I am having some problems so I first would like to know if anyone ever tried this. I am using a SD card to save data with FATFS. The problem is that the MCU is also doing other stuff... I've been having writes of a few ms which is normal with FATFS. I am considering of course trying to write 512bytes at a time but also implementing DMA on the SPI. But I am not sure the DMA will help. It seems FATFS f_write and the port function disk_write, want to right away

Just 1 question, there can't be switch of context when pulseIn is occurring, correct?

Hi @@curtis63 I would advise to use Energia. Use Energia libraries when you can. If you need some feature not supported by any Energia libraries (user submitted or core) then use more low level programming (using MSP register headers and things like that). This way you get a mix of both and spend the least time developing software. If you would like some debug power, CCS supports Energia sketches. That said I think you can do everything you want with Energia libraries. Note that some problems you might face are not language wise. Yes many times in CCS you use C instead of C++. But you ca

I have no idea about those particular examples. Usually when using Energia for that I only needed really simple stuff so I used Serial.available on the receiving end to check if anything was received. The serial library has a buffer and automatically stores what was received (of course there's a limit of how much you can receive before having to start emptying the buffer)

So far I am pleasantly surprised as it is still going and already charged it (well it was not all they way discharged when it came). I would post a video but it doesn't seem to support it. How did you open yours? I want to look inside mine but not sure on how to open the case.

Seriously? what a bummer :/ I've been waiting for another before this one.... since august the 15th (this one that arrived was ordered august the 31st)... let's hope that one works. If it arrives.

At the very least there should be a sense resistor. You can increase it but then you limit the maximum current before it cuts off. If there is a voltage divider setting the minimum current, that would be awesome.

@@Fmilburn It arrived. Tested it and there seems to be a lower limit. I would estimate about 50mA. If you draw less than that it turns off... It will work for this little robot, I could have an LED in it flashing too. But it's a shame, can't use it for a project that only has a bluetooth device, a MCU and a IMU.

I wonder, the PRU can only be programmed in assembly? I see here many times a RPI running ROS, connected to an Arduino, in robotic platforms. The Sitara with those MCUs could probably be used to substitute both.

You said, any path but still I must ask. Does your windows user name have any weird characters like (how are they called in english), the:

@@energia btw, is MSP432 Energia still not supported in CCS so it the debugger can be used?

I'm probably gonna order some for me too after september starts. Plus,of course, some for this project

btw, anyone interested in this base (@@chicken, @Fmilburn)? I'm probably gonna make another version that has places to fit in the launchpads back female headers. It's based on a project by adafruit, so the rest of the parts are there, I just made a different base. open with adobe reader to look around. It's 130x75mm in size. The powerbank box should be about 2cm of the ground. The powerbank box is 120x25x25mm test.PDF

The circuit seems to be pretty much the same for these ones. I don't think there will be any diference in this model relative to that protectiom. I asked a seller and he said there isn't such protection. So if it comes and there is, then I will ask for a refund based on that answer