juani_c 66 Posted December 5, 2013 Share Posted December 5, 2013 This is kind of cool, see here There is also a new boosterpack that looks like a gaming controller bluehash and roadrunner84 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Fred 453 Posted December 5, 2013 Share Posted December 5, 2013 That looks really interesting. Nice to see the MSP430 expanding in different directions. Sent from my Nexus 5 using Tapatalk bluehash 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
roadrunner84 466 Posted December 6, 2013 Share Posted December 6, 2013 It indeed looks interesting, but I'm not sure why they sell it as a "haptics enabled microcontroller", since there is no dedicated haptic feature in the device. It has 24 I/O pins, all touch enabled, it has an ADC10 and it has two TimerA blocks, both with 3 CC registers. These features can all be used to create haptic control. But the device does not drive vibrators itself; it outputs a PWM signal to a vibrator driver chip. It also does no sequencing itself, it's done by using the haptic feedback library. So why did they name it a haptic enabled controller? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
spirilis 1,265 Posted December 6, 2013 Share Posted December 6, 2013 I was a little confused by that myself but didn't feel like diving deep enough to check. Sent from my Galaxy Note II with Tapatalk 4 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
juani_c 66 Posted December 6, 2013 Author Share Posted December 6, 2013 All the code examples are the same as any other MSP430, the haptic library is not available yet. Since there is no dedicated haptic hardware It shoul work the same with any MSP430, rigth? It looks like a marketing thing..... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
bluehash 1,581 Posted December 6, 2013 Share Posted December 6, 2013 Looks like the software dev kit is the brains behind the haptics. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
rockets4kids 204 Posted December 6, 2013 Share Posted December 6, 2013 Are there any new peripherals in this chip? Is there any that makes this chip distinctly different than other MSP430s? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
spirilis 1,265 Posted December 6, 2013 Share Posted December 6, 2013 There is something about the Immersion TouchSense technology mentioned. I wonder if this is just a plain MSP430G2553 with some sort of licensing agreement predesignated so as long as you use this chip, you don't have to pay licensing fees to use the Immersion haptics hardware or something? Because otherwise it looks like an MSP430G2553IPW28 (28-pin chip w/ P3 exposed)... even in pinout. I guess it's the software dev kit like @@bluehash said. Strange for them to roll another part# for this but I suppose whatever floats their aircraft carrier... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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