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Serial port and I/O Expander, I2C
I thought I would write a quick post on a booster pack that I am working on. First a bit of background. I am working on a High Altitude Amateur Radio Balloon. I have some sensors and peripherals...
View ArticleCC3200 bootloader
In order for this board to reach its full potential, it needs to be programmable in the field, very much preferably without a usb cable and a laptop at the location. From what I can gather the code...
View ArticleTurn Signal/Hazard Flasher
Hello, I was not entirely sure where to post this. The MSP430 is still very new to me. RobG helped me tremendously with some code for a very cool power/lighting controller for childrens battery...
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ESI Project: Resistive Touchscreen Pattern Detector
Thanks to an extended road trip (6000 miles) and receiving pieces for another project in the mail (hello dAISy), I'm a bit late with starting my ESI project log. But here we go. My project is to...
View Articlequestion about using f5529 launchpad to program g2553
I've been thinking about using the f5529 launchpad board to program my g2553 chips. From what I understand, all I have to do is simply connect: programmer side of board | g2553 3.3v == vcc pin...
View ArticleCC3200 launchpad and CC110l boosterpack
Anyone have success using these together? I seem to get a lockup (does not return) calling Radio.receiverOn after a few dozen receptions from a sensor. After each reception, data is transmitted to...
View ArticleSerial Port Greyed Out on Macintosh
I am trying to upload a sketch but am unable to, as there is no way to set the port, as the Serial Port option is greyed out in the Tools menu. I am running OSX 10.9.5, my device (CC3200 LaunchPad)...
View ArticleSha1 on the CC3200
I am writing a websocket client on my CC3200, its working as it is, but its not verifying the sec key the server sends back, so thats next. But to do that I need to hash a value with sha1, and sofar...
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ESI Project: Single-Point Sensing of Whole-Home Water Usage
My city water rates are sky high so I was looking for a way to monitor my water usage and hopefully reduce it. I came across his paper "Single-Point Sensing of Whole-Home Water Activity"...
View ArticleAdd more LEDs with Fading
Hello Community, I found this really amazing Code from oPossoum in the Code Vault for fading a LED. The problem is, I would like to make both LED on the launchPad fading. I am really new to...
View ArticleMeasure short amounts of time with micros()
Tested on CC3200. I am trying to see how long a pin is held in one state, the time will be pretty short at most 100us. So I tried with micros() before and after, but didnt get good results, then I...
View ArticleESP8266 - IoT on the cheap ;)
Hi everybody, People might have read the hackaday post describing the ESP8266. The ESP8266 is a really low price Wifi chip, which uses serial communication (just like the Wifly etc.) to connect to...
View ArticleNew function for library
I want to add a function to return the number of bytes in the RX buffer of the A110x2500Radio library file. I added the function to A110x2500Radio.cpp and definition to A110x2500Radio.h. But I get an...
View ArticleSerial communication not working in energia with CC3200
Hi all, I have downloaded the energia sdk(version 13) for CC3200 launch pad, I have configured the jumper wire for J8 and SOP2 also the rest jumpers. Apart from that , I updates the firmware , so I...
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Console with One-Wire Temperature on MSP430F5529 LP
Hi Guys, This has been on my bucket list for a while. I've put together a CCS6 project that gives the user a serial console to the MSP430 with the ability to read a DS18B20 sensor by issuing a...
View ArticlePrint Serial Monitor Ouput to a file
Hi, Is there a quick way to store the serial monitor output to a file? Thanks, Shrenik
View ArticleNumber of PWM outputs on MSP430F5529 Launchpad?
I found out from this post that there are 14 PWM outputs possible on the MSP430F5529 microcontroller, and 10 PWM outputs possible on the MSP430F5529 Launchpad. How many are possible when using Energia?...
View Articlecc3200 power saving mode
Hi All, I just started using cc3200 launch pad. I could get a external LED blink from webserver running on cc3200. I used SimpleWebServerWifi example to achieve it. Now I wanted to power the launch...
View ArticleI2C on a MSP430F2003
Hey all, I've been staring at this for a while and for the life of me I can't figure it out. I've been trying to adapt the library here:http://jan.rychter.com/enblog/msp430-i2c-usi-library-released for...
View ArticleA buffer?
I've been reading up on using some sort of a $.50 hex buffer in order to shield the board from power fluctuations, short circuits and other newbie mistakes. Seems like a great idea! In fact, I wonder...
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