spirilis 1,265 Posted January 14, 2021 Share Posted January 14, 2021 HI folks- Old time forum member here, but been away from the microcontroller hobby for a few years... sold my old house, moved to a rental for a year, now finally in a new "permanent" house for hopefully a long time. The basement is an utter mess but I have all my electronics parts, soldering equipment, an entire bin dedicated to TI launchpads, stored in my crawlspace (w/ dehumidifier) for when I clean up this mess of a basement & set up my new workbench. So what's everyone working on these days? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Rei Vilo 695 Posted January 14, 2021 Share Posted January 14, 2021 Nice to see you back! I've terminated the embedXcode project (it is now under LTS). I'm switching away from Apple and transitioning to Debian. Many projects on IoT and displays, as usual, and starting to investigate AI with edge computing. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
spirilis 1,265 Posted January 14, 2021 Author Share Posted January 14, 2021 1 hour ago, Rei Vilo said: Nice to see you back! I've terminated the embedXcode project (it is now under LTS). I'm switching away from Apple and transitioning to Debian. Many projects on IoT and displays, as usual, and starting to investigate AI with edge computing. AI and edge? That sounds fancy... what kind of edge hardware? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
bluehash 1,581 Posted January 15, 2021 Share Posted January 15, 2021 Hello! Looks like a nice space to spread your stuff. The last year was tough, but got through it. All my work is at home now, no active side projects... however I'm going to pick up an old powerwheels jeep for cheap and fix it up for my kid's birthday 😀 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
spirilis 1,265 Posted January 15, 2021 Author Share Posted January 15, 2021 7 hours ago, bluehash said: Hello! Looks like a nice space to spread your stuff. The last year was tough, but got through it. All my work is at home now, no active side projects... however I'm going to pick up an old powerwheels jeep for cheap and fix it up for my kid's birthday 😀 Ha that is cool! I guess one side project I need to pick up "at some point" (code phrase for "sometime next century if I'm still alive") is DIY electrification of our bicycles. My son especially needs some motorized motivation... we moved to an area that's quite hilly! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
spirilis 1,265 Posted June 5, 2021 Author Share Posted June 5, 2021 Finally getting back into it. No workbench yet, but I start a 4-week sabbatical after next week, so one task on my plate is to revamp the basement with new shelving + bigger work from home office & workbench. In the meantime, I noticed the older TI SimpleLink hardware seems to be deprecated - the latest SimpleLink SDKs no longer support them & it halts with PG1.x hardware (requires PG2.0+). So I threw all those launchpads away. I guess I'm getting old or maybe wise enough to realize when something isn't worth the effort... So my focus now is the MSP430FR2433 - the Value-Line FRAM launchpad and chip. I'm just using CCS and the TI cl430 compiler, no more GCC for me. Keeping it simple & fun, and as focused as possible. I think that's the best way to roll, having too many options really distracts one and prevents you from really accomplishing personally rewarding stuff, so I'm narrowing my processor down. I was considering the FR2355, which I have a launchpad for as well - more pins & fancier peripherals. But I kept thinking, you know, I'm never going to use all that stuff and it's probably wiser to (re-)start smaller. Compared to the original value-line chips, the MSP430FR2433 is pretty nice. eUSCI_A0, A1, and B0 - 16KB FRAM and *4KB* SRAM - Not too shabby. Even has a (quite laughably basic) RTC peripheral. Available in some tiny packages should I ever build my own gadgets without the launchpad. Only thing I don't see in its hardware setup is Capacitive sensing support like the old G2553 had, where you set the PxSEL bits a certain way... I'll have to look deeper though. That was a cool feature of the G2553. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
yyrkoon 250 Posted June 11, 2022 Share Posted June 11, 2022 What's up ? Yeah I been out of the game for 5 years. DEC of 2017 ended my last paid gig as an embedded developer /system architect for LEDs4Sports out of Florida. Worked a remote 1 year contract, on a beaglebone hardware based project( NDA ). Once the contract ended my best friend from high school heard about it, called me up, and asked me if I wanted to hang out a bit, AND he had been living on Maui for the last 25 ish years . . . Spent two years on Maui soaking it all in, before rolling back into the mainland in 2020. Wasn't really interested into getting back into the trade until now. The only interactions I've had with computers had been gaming, trading / mining crypto, and everyday email like stuff. In short, I had burnt out, and it's taken me this long to get the "urge" back. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
L.R.A 78 Posted February 25 Share Posted February 25 Hi everyone, It's weird to see all these familiar usernames after what 4 years? decided to take a break on all of this and now I am finally back in the embedded world, both professionally and hobby :D. So decided to see if anyone was still around Quote Link to post Share on other sites
zeke 693 Posted June 28 Share Posted June 28 Hi Everybody! Yeah, it sure has been a looooong time since I've been here! I hope you are all still alive and kicking! I am starting to get back into the msp430 stuff as a result of getting a new job. It's fascinating to see that CCS is now at V12! My last installed version was V8! I'll keep monitoring the forums and see who comes around to the old watering hole! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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