GG430 53 Posted March 21, 2013 Share Posted March 21, 2013 The Jawbone UP is a shambolic piece of work. After seeing the teardown, I would never buy one. Could you elaborate more on what Quote Link to post Share on other sites
jpnorair 340 Posted March 21, 2013 Share Posted March 21, 2013 Could you elaborate more on what Quote Link to post Share on other sites
chicken 630 Posted April 7, 2013 Share Posted April 7, 2013 More test gear with MSP430 inside: A MSP430F437 powers the Tonghui TH2822A LCR meter. Teardown and pictures on KuzyaTech's blog: http://kuzyatech.com/tonghui-th2822a-lcr-meter jazz and bluehash 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
GG430 53 Posted April 14, 2013 Share Posted April 14, 2013 This one is literally making my day since a while ago. It's an alarm clock controlled by your sleep phase. When I first heard of this I thought it's just another way of alarm clock with better advertisement. Anyway I tried the same technique with "Sleep as Android" and couldn't really believe it works as good as it did. Waking and getting up was much easier. So I bought the AXBO sleep phase alarm clock. http://www.axbo.com I also found a blog entry about messing with the internals. http://www.openbeacon.org/Openbeacon_Axbo Didn't even know it uses a 430 until then. Even better on the version for 2 people they use 3 430s :-) An MSP430F436 in the clock and a MSP430F1101A in each of the transmitters. I already bought one of these NRF24 boards on ebay to mess with it a bit. Let's see what comes out of this. bluehash 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
chicken 630 Posted May 26, 2013 Share Posted May 26, 2013 Another Fluke another MSP430: Fluke 113 Utility Multimeter MSP430F448 - lots of pins thanks to the integrated LCD controller. bluehash 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
chicken 630 Posted August 24, 2013 Share Posted August 24, 2013 MSP430F5259 found in the new Motorola Moto X http://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/Motorola+Moto+X+Teardown/16867/2 (step 15) There's also a beefy TI C5000 DSP involved. tripwire and jpnorair 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
spirilis 1,265 Posted August 25, 2013 Share Posted August 25, 2013 fancy, F5259 is one of the new ones with a native 1.62-1.8V DVIO rail for native I/O with newer microprocessors' cores... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
jpnorair 340 Posted August 25, 2013 Share Posted August 25, 2013 It looks like it must have something to do with the NFC. I'm kind-of amazed they dedicated two chips to NFC, but I like it (I love NFC). Anyway, they must be off-loading a lot of the NFC/NDEF functionality to the 5259. Otherwise, there would be no reason to use a chip so big. I have an NDEF server that runs comfortably on the CC430 (4KB), along with a lot of other stuff, so with 32KB RAM I guess they must be buffering the *entire* transaction on the MSP. Considering the Moto X is designed to maximize battery runtime, I get it -- minimize trips to the big CPU. That said, I'm still kind-of surprised they couldn't negotiate a SoC or SiP. On a related note, if you don't have quite so demanding needs for your NFC app, and you want an MSP430, do check out the new RF430 parts from TI! They are FR parts with FRAM, so pretty darn impressive. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
chicken 630 Posted October 21, 2013 Share Posted October 21, 2013 This electronic bike lock seems to use an MSP430: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/126495570/bitlock-turning-your-smart-phone-into-your-bike-ke Can't tell from the images which MSP430 they are using, but there are two EZ430 and an MSP-FET430UIF shown in the "history" section bluehash 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
cde 334 Posted October 21, 2013 Share Posted October 21, 2013 Those arn't standard EZ430 target boards. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
chicken 630 Posted October 21, 2013 Share Posted October 21, 2013 Looks like the EZ430-RF256x eval kit for Bluetooth: http://processors.wiki.ti.com/index.php/EZ430-RF256x Quote Link to post Share on other sites
chicken 630 Posted November 18, 2013 Share Posted November 18, 2013 In reference to this, I have found another one, Disney's Glow with the Show. Will definitely pick one up on my next visit to Orlando http://stuffandymakes.com/2012/07/08/disney-glow-with-the-show-ears-teardown/ Looks like Mikey got an update http://08milluz.wordpress.com/2013/11/11/glow-with-the-show-ears-teardown/ .. or maybe it's an older version, definitely a different revision (GlowEars v1.5) Still an MSP430G2553 though. tripwire and bluehash 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
RobG 1,892 Posted November 18, 2013 Author Share Posted November 18, 2013 Nice, I'll have to get one (to replace the one I broke while disassembling ) Quote Link to post Share on other sites
bluehash 1,581 Posted November 18, 2013 Share Posted November 18, 2013 @@Fred found this out by talking to the developers: Tado - Thermostat/Heating App. http://forum.43oh.com/topic/4595-nice-msp430-stellaris-based-heating-control/ Quote Link to post Share on other sites
chicken 630 Posted January 1, 2014 Share Posted January 1, 2014 3 MSP430's controlling LEDs and buttons in the new Mac Pro? http://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/Mac+Pro+Late+2013+Teardown/20778#s56753 From the package (VQFN40?) it could be MSP430F23x0. Though the only trace of a MSP430F2380 can be found on a Chinese website (http://www.bdtic.com/TI/MSP430/MSP430F2380.html) bluehash and RobG 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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