bluehash 1,581 Posted January 1, 2014 Share Posted January 1, 2014 As usual @@chicken, good find and thanks for reporting! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mechg 17 Posted January 12, 2014 Share Posted January 12, 2014 Here is some shameless self-promotion: I make and sell gauss meters that use MSP430G series chips: http://gravitastech.weebly.com/index.html My customers include slot-car racers who use them to tune motors, guitar makers who build magnetic pickups, and Model-T Ford owners who rebuild their own generators. The design is not open source. RobG, dubnet, bluehash and 1 other 4 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
bluehash 1,581 Posted March 16, 2014 Share Posted March 16, 2014 Bump! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
tripwire 139 Posted March 26, 2014 Share Posted March 26, 2014 KickSat is currently due to launch this weekend, on 30th March. Assuming all goes to plan there should be over a hundred MSP430s in low earth orbit, for a few days at least http://forum.43oh.com/topic/1249-kicksat-your-personal-spacecraft-in-space/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KickSat https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/zacinaction/kicksat-your-personal-spacecraft-in-space/ EDIT: Launch delayed again EDIT2: KickSat is in orbit! The individual sprites aren't deployed from the cubesat yet. I think the plan is to do that on April 30th (430 day ) jpnorair and bluehash 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
chicken 630 Posted April 8, 2014 Share Posted April 8, 2014 MSP430F5435A and CC2560 in the remote control of the new Amazon Fire TV http://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/Amazon+Fire+TV+Teardown/23856#s61356 pine, KatiePier, tripwire and 3 others 6 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
jpnorair 340 Posted April 15, 2014 Share Posted April 15, 2014 MSP430F5435A and CC2560 in the remote control of the new Amazon Fire TV FireTV.png http://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/Amazon+Fire+TV+Teardown/23856#s61356 Nice, although I'm a bit surprised they didn't use an SoC of some sort -- using BT kind-of negates the idea that energy efficiency was a central design goal. In any case, I have a friend at Lab126... I will ask if he was involved. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
oPossum 1,083 Posted May 10, 2014 Share Posted May 10, 2014 Apple G5 PowerMac (PCI version, circa 2004) There where also several other TI chips for power management and firewire on the huge motherboard. chicken, pine, RobG and 2 others 5 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
RobG 1,892 Posted May 10, 2014 Author Share Posted May 10, 2014 Nice, I will have to dig out my old Macs and see what else I can find Quote Link to post Share on other sites
fry 2 Posted June 12, 2014 Share Posted June 12, 2014 Hello all, This seems to be a custom Chronos watch (it has a buzzer) as part of the GoalControl system: http://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/GoalControl-Tivoli-04.jpg The article explaining the system use can be found at: http://arstechnica.com/business/2014/06/goal-line-tech-arrives-at-world-cup-promises-to-halt-endless-arguments/ bluehash and tripwire 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
bluehash 1,581 Posted June 22, 2014 Share Posted June 22, 2014 Hello all, This seems to be a custom Chronos watch (it has a buzzer) as part of the GoalControl system: http://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/GoalControl-Tivoli-04.jpg The article explaining the system use can be found at: http://arstechnica.com/business/2014/06/goal-line-tech-arrives-at-world-cup-promises-to-halt-endless-arguments/ @@fry welcome to 43oh. Here is the blog link: http://43oh.com/2014/06/are-tis-chronos-watches-being-used-in-the-fifa-world-cup/ Quote Link to post Share on other sites
chicken 630 Posted June 23, 2014 Share Posted June 23, 2014 Microsoft Surface Pro 3 comes with two MSP430's. https://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/Microsoft+Surface+Pro+3+Teardown/26595 Near the touch panel controller, there's a MSP430G2402 (8K FLASH, 256B RAM): And on the SSD there's an unidentifiable MSP430G2???: RobG, tripwire, bluehash and 1 other 4 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
chicken 630 Posted June 23, 2014 Share Posted June 23, 2014 ... in fact MSP430G2402 seems to be the go-to companion MCU for Surface Pro touchscreen controllers. Surface Pro (1) Surface Pro 2 The same SSD and unidentifiable MSP430 is also found in Surface Pro 2 bluehash, pine and tripwire 3 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Fred 453 Posted June 24, 2014 Share Posted June 24, 2014 Nice find. I recently got a Surface Pro 1 - not that different to the Pro 2 and I got a great deal as they were obviously clearing stock before the Pro 3 arrived. With 2 kids my geek time has been reduced and it's now easier to use Eagle (with a pen for board layout) or even CCS (with a LP dangling by my side) in front of the TV. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
GG430 53 Posted June 24, 2014 Share Posted June 24, 2014 The same SSD and unidentifiable MSP430 is also found in Surface Pro 2 Nice find indeed. It looks like a MSP430G2201. Wonder why the marking looks so vanished. Anyways, there shouldn't be anything after the 2201 in the second row, but it looks like there is something. http://www.ti.com/general/docs/partmarking/deviceinfo.tsp?keyword=MSP430G2201IRSA16R&searchType=device&startPosition=0&termPlacement=EXACT_MATCH&templateId=0&navigationId=0&siteFlag=0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
chicken 630 Posted June 24, 2014 Share Posted June 24, 2014 Wonder why the marking looks so vanished. In the teardowns you can see that there's a big sticker covering that side of the SSD. So I guess some of the marking came off when removing the sticker. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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