cde 334 Posted December 10, 2011 Share Posted December 10, 2011 Oh, and you do have to take into account that unlike the Arduino, the msp430 does not have a free, code UNLIMITED, c compiler or upper level compiler like "arduino to c". Quote Link to post Share on other sites
ohmselectronics 6 Posted December 10, 2011 Author Share Posted December 10, 2011 Hello cde, point taken, i believe the free CCS has a 16K limit (might be wrong, though), not sure on IAR but there are bunch of other free tools available with no limitation, in the other hand ARDUINO and it's software is good for hobbist or individuals that do not want to dig into what really is happening, but when tackleing a real project Arduino hits the wall fair and square since does not have the emulation and simulation tools MSP430 has and Arduino is buggy. try running the trigonometric functions on both then check me back. Regards Quote Link to post Share on other sites
gordon 229 Posted December 10, 2011 Share Posted December 10, 2011 Oh, and you do have to take into account that unlike the Arduino, the msp430 does not have a free, code UNLIMITED, c compiler or upper level compiler like "arduino to c". Oh, really? zeke 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
cde 334 Posted December 11, 2011 Share Posted December 11, 2011 Oh, and you do have to take into account that unlike the Arduino, the msp430 does not have a free, code UNLIMITED, c compiler or upper level compiler like "arduino to c". Oh, really? Well, color me red. Ha. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
MattTheGeek 99 Posted December 14, 2011 Share Posted December 14, 2011 I'm toying around a board with OLIMEX that has the footprint of a Arduino.... USB Bootloader too... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
ohmselectronics 6 Posted December 14, 2011 Author Share Posted December 14, 2011 Excellent! a little competition, do you know what processor they are using? i could not find such MSP430ino board in their website. thanks Quote Link to post Share on other sites
MattTheGeek 99 Posted December 15, 2011 Share Posted December 15, 2011 Excellent! a little competition, do you know what processor they are using? i could not find such MSP430ino board in their website. thanks Not out yet. It should be using the F5510. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
ohmselectronics 6 Posted December 25, 2011 Author Share Posted December 25, 2011 PADrINO in the Flesh Quote Link to post Share on other sites
gordon 229 Posted December 25, 2011 Share Posted December 25, 2011 I take it this is the brainf*cked Arduino header layout with no escape hatch to the real world in, say, Olimex-style? Plans to have an escape hatch to the real world in the next revision? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
ohmselectronics 6 Posted December 25, 2011 Author Share Posted December 25, 2011 Hello Gordon, not sure i grasp the dept of your coment... anyways, as it it can be read on the board this MSP430ino is home brewed in my garage, and whether we like it or not, there is ~2000 Arduino shields out there non existant for Lauchpad footprint... so this is my take to tap into that, regards Quote Link to post Share on other sites
gordon 229 Posted December 25, 2011 Share Posted December 25, 2011 Look at the unpopulated headers (parallel to the populated Arduino ones) on this here image: There's a set of headers on a standard 100-mil grid -- you may want to look into borrowing that idea to get the best of both worlds. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
ohmselectronics 6 Posted December 25, 2011 Author Share Posted December 25, 2011 Thanks but do not see the point, this processor is an ARM, google for FEZ (has an ARM), CHIPINO (a PIC), etc, etc there are a lot of processors using ARDUINO's footprint but none using and MSP430, that is where PADrINO comes into the picture... It's odd that TI did not jump on the wagon and reuse the existing Arduino's ecosystem just by matching the odd headers etc, but on the same token have not seen a Renesas or one of the top 3 MCU manufacturers with similar boards to ARDUINO does it makes sense? regards Quote Link to post Share on other sites
ohmselectronics 6 Posted December 25, 2011 Author Share Posted December 25, 2011 Here you go Quote Link to post Share on other sites
ohmselectronics 6 Posted December 25, 2011 Author Share Posted December 25, 2011 Happy trio, the board should be purple, though since we are blending RED with BLUE, next batch... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
ohmselectronics 6 Posted December 25, 2011 Author Share Posted December 25, 2011 The biggest MCU player (2008) as shown Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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