Is the MSPhere project work stopped completely ?

[jayachar88 0]

Hi,

 

As someone moving from Atmel's (both baremetal and Arduino/clones) to MSP430, I was really jubilant to find something like MSPhere, but looking at the blog and this forum, I get the impression that the project has been stopped/abandoned. Can the project owner comment ? Is there any hope of reviving the work ?

 

For me, if TimerA, GPIO work reasonably well, without excessive bloat (beyond say 15-20% of native C code), it is good enough, although having I2C/TWI and PWM abstraction would be good. If someone has used MSPhere for such tasks, with reasonable level of success, would like to hear from them.

 

cheers,

Jay

[gatesphere 45]

Hi Jay,

 

Sorry to have let this lament for so long, but as far as I'm concerned, the MSPhere project is dead. I had some unfortunate life events pull me away from mcu work, and I've since lost interest in this project. Not to mention, there have been several other projects that attempt the same thing and pull it off much better than MSPhere... friendly_launchpad and EasyMSP come to mind, as does a neat little project porting the Arduino IDE to a LaunchPad compatible form: Energia. Hope this helps!

 

-->Jake

[Rickta59 589]

The Energia project seems to have a lot of potential for those who want an Arduino environment. I got it sort of

working on Ubuntu 11.04. It still seems to need some work. I did get it to compile some of the sample programs

and then run with the Serial Monitor. * I have my Launchpad connected to an FTDI serial usb device hence the ttyUSB0 *

 

-rick

 

Here it is with the 'TimerSerialExample':

[Rei Vilo 695]

Hi,

 

For Mac OS X users, because Energia is based on Processing, it is supported by the Xcode template embedXcode.

 

Find documentation, installation guide and link to code at embedXcode.weebly.com

 

As a just registered member, I can't post links. Sorry! Now I can

 

Enjoy

[MattTheGeek 99]

The Energia project seems to have a lot of potential for those who want an Arduino environment. I got it sort of

working on Ubuntu 11.04. It still seems to need some work. I did get it to compile some of the sample programs

and then run with the Serial Monitor. * I have my Launchpad connected to an FTDI serial usb device hence the ttyUSB0 *

 

-rick

 

Here it is with the 'TimerSerialExample':

 

Hmm.... Interesting.

 

Whats the size of the binary?

[Rickta59 589]

It shows the size in the picture:

 

Binary sketch size: 934 bytes (of a 16,384 byte maximum)

 

sketch == firmware

 

More info here: http://www.43oh.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=2565