Hi everyone,
I wanted some strategic advice from the Forum on an MSP event I'm organizing in Rome next week (everyone is invited, the link is at the end of the post). I'm trying to introduce the MSP hardware/software platform to an arduinocentric audience who is unaware of other - better in my opinion - options such as ours. For the hands-on part, I'm basically going to open up a sketch in Energia - which they will recognize as an "Arduino in red" - and then I want to migrate it into Code Composer Studio, in order to show them what a professional IDE is all about and what it offers.
My idea is to focus on two - of the many - reasons to make the move: debugging and low-power-oriented coding. I have very little time and the group is diverse in that it will include complete newbies all the way to engineers. I'm a bit stuck with my C mindset to come up with a proper minimal Energia sketch that is meaningful to view in the debugger and possibly in the disassembly view too. The other issue I've encountered is that, once imported and run in CCS, the sketch forks in a maze of Wiring self-generated derivatives and routines that are hard to follow for a beginner. Showing them the low power modes in the register view is also a possibility, but it's perhaps a bit too advanced as it requires mentioning interrupts and ISRs. Bottom line, it has to be as simple as it gets because my goal is to get the audience interested, not to teach them.
My initial idea was to show a modified Blink sketch with a couple of incrementing globals that can be tracked down in the debug view, both as expressions and in memory, but honestly it doesn't mean much to me.
I would really appreciate any feedback or input from the brilliant 43oh collective mind on more creative - and yet simple - ways to get the message through...
Link to free event (breakfast with organic pastries is offered) if you want to attend!
Thanks
Stefano