ChrisLast 1 Posted August 30, 2016 Share Posted August 30, 2016 I recently bought the Educational Booster pack MkII and I can get all the example sketches working apart from the LCD. I have tried all the EduBPMKII_Screen examples and even tried writing my own drivers from the datasheet (work in progress). I am using the booster pack with a Tiva C TM4C123GXL MCU and all I ever see with any sketch including the LCD sketches is the backlight on the LCD. I am beginning to doubt whether the LCD controller is working correctly. The hardware SPI on the TM4C is definitely OK as I have previously used SSI0 to interface with my Nokia 5510 LCD. I am using Energia Windows: Binary release version 1.6.10E18 (8/11/2016) Has that release's LCD functions been tested with TM4C123GXL + BOOSTXL-EDUMKII combination? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Rei Vilo 695 Posted August 30, 2016 Share Posted August 30, 2016 The Educational BoosterPack MK-2 does work on the LaunchPad TM4C123 but there is a trick! You need to remove resistors R9 and R10. Those two 0? connect pins 23 and 24 to pins 14 and 15, the latter being used by SPI for MISO and MOSI. Fmilburn and ChrisLast 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
ChrisLast 1 Posted August 31, 2016 Author Share Posted August 31, 2016 Thanks Rei, I can see how connecting my Accelerometer output to the LCD MOSI might upset it Quote Link to post Share on other sites
jondaddio 1 Posted September 15, 2016 Share Posted September 15, 2016 Is this NOT an issue for the MSP432 LaunchPad? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
PA0JMG 1 Posted September 16, 2016 Share Posted September 16, 2016 I have removed the resistors. But stil I am unable to upload the Sketches with the boosterpack MKII installed. I receive the follwing message: "caused by : java IO. IOExeption: createProcess error 193, %1 is not a valid Win32 application" I am using Energia version 18 and W10 . TM4C123 with Ed Boosterpack MKII. Is there a problem with Java. With no Ed Boosterpack connected some basic scetches do run. Hope there is a solution Jan Quote Link to post Share on other sites
ChrisLast 1 Posted September 16, 2016 Author Share Posted September 16, 2016 Is this NOT an issue for the MSP432 LaunchPad? It should be fine Jondaddio - TI's compatibility checker https://dev.ti.com/bpchecker/ says it is fully compatible and those pins are not shorted together on MSP432 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
ChrisLast 1 Posted September 16, 2016 Author Share Posted September 16, 2016 I have removed the resistors. But stil I am unable to upload the Sketches with the boosterpack MKII installed. I receive the follwing message: "caused by : java IO. IOExeption: createProcess error 193, %1 is not a valid Win32 application" I am using Energia version 18 and W10 . TM4C123 with Ed Boosterpack MKII. Is there a problem with Java. With no Ed Boosterpack connected some basic scetches do run. Hope there is a solution Jan Not sure about that one Jan, is it complaining because you have a mixture of 64 bit and 32 bit software installed? If in doubt use the 32-bit software to guarantee compatibility on 32 or 64 bit machines PA0JMG 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
jondaddio 1 Posted September 16, 2016 Share Posted September 16, 2016 It should be fine Jondaddio - TI's compatibility checker https://dev.ti.com/bpchecker/ says it is fully compatible and those pins are not shorted together on MSP432 Great! Thanks for the info. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
PA0JMG 1 Posted September 18, 2016 Share Posted September 18, 2016 Not sure about that one Jan, is it complaining because you have a mixture of 64 bit and 32 bit software installed? If in doubt use the 32-bit software to guarantee compatibility on 32 or 64 bit machines Problem solved! Windows Firewall was blocking. Thanks Chris energia 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
energia 485 Posted October 4, 2016 Share Posted October 4, 2016 Thanks for reporting back. Interesting to know that Windows FW was actually blocking executing java shipped with Energia. Can you list what you had to do to overcome the issue? I would like to get it documented.. Robert Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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