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Meet TI at the InvenSense Motion Interface Conference, 14th June
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DaveS
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Hi 430 blog followers, Following on from the recent launch of the MSP430F5528 & MPU-9150 based InvenSense Wearable Sensor development kit, TI are excited to take part in InvenSense's upcoming Motion Interface Conference, full details can be...
Come visit us at Maker Faire in San Mateo, CA this weekend!
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7 days ago
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AdrianFer
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The MSP430 team will be at Maker Faire in San Mateo this weekend! Come by to see some cool MSP430-enabled demos, giveaways & good company at booth #73! Our friends from 43oh.com will also be there to show off great community-created BoosterPacks...
Announcing a new design contest featuring MSP430™ MCUs
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9 days ago
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Alex Kephart
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Introducing the Ultimate RoadTest - http://www.element14.com/community/groups/ultimate-road-test In conjunction Farnell – Newark - element14 with we are pleased to announce the Ultimate RoadTest, a competition which will stretch the...
MSP430ware, the MSP430 Embedded Software Ecosystem
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29 days ago
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William Goh
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Have you ever had the need to scavenge through multiple pages of a website just to locate a simple code example or documentation? MSP430ware is designed to answer that question. MSP430ware is a collection of all MSP430 user’s guide, datasheet, code...
RE: Who has the Lowest Power?
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1 month ago
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jborgeson
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I work with the lowest power microcontroller family on the planet. I have for years. We talk about it quite a bit both inside the office and out. “Ultra-low power” goes with MSP430 MCUs like peanut butter goes with jelly. However, there...
Microcontroller Software
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1 month ago
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Russell Miller
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For those of you who haven't seen it, we have an all-new MSP430 Microcontroller Software page. Some of the links you'll find include: MSP430 Microcontroller Code examples A list of our IDEs, including Code Composer Studio MSP430Ware...
Make your $4.30 MSP430 LaunchPad kit rock with new Audio Capactive Touch BoosterPack for high quality MP3 encoding/decoding!
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1 month ago
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AdrianFer
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The C5535 ultra-low-power digital signal processor-based BoosterPack is a plug-in board for the MSP430™ microcontroller LaunchPad development kit, and is the first solution from TI where the DSP is solely controlled by a microcontroller. The BoosterPack...
InvenSense® MPU-9150 & MSP430F5528 come together in a cool new wearable sensor development kit
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2 months ago
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DaveS
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Introducing a cool new wearable development kit from InvenSense® featuring MSP430F5528 ULP technology: this 16bit, 128K flash MCU is used to control an InvenSense MPU-9150, 9-axis sensor and also provides USB or Bluetooth connectivity back to a host...
Online-based coding environment for MSP430
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2 months ago
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AdrianFer
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Inventor Town has come up with an online-based MSP430 firmware editor, which enables developers to edit C-code within your web browser, without the need of an IDE such as IAR or CCS. The files are simply compiled in the cloud within Inventor Town's...
Chronos watch controlling a Hummer H1??!! YES, PLEASE!
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2 months ago
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AdrianFer
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We've seen several projects that retrofit the accelerometer-equipped wireless Chronos watch into small remote control toy cars. However, the clever folks at Kairos Autonomi decided to go big and rigged up a system that allows them to remotely control...
Get your game on with TI Tech and the Chronos Labryinth
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3 months ago
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Jason Kriek
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I have hacked together a Chronos watch demo that adds some technological fun to the Labryinth ball maze. The demo uses a Chronos watch and a Stellaris DK-LM3S9b96 dev board. The chronos watch sends accelerometer data to the DK-LM3s9B96 via the 900mhz...
LaunchPad around the world
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3 months ago
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Russell Miller
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Many of our users are taking LaunchPad places we never dreamed of. It's exciting to see, so we thought we'd share some of the more exotic destinations. If you would like to share your favorite LaunchPad travel pic, please post a link in the thread...
"Colorful" Ideas using MSP430 in LEDs
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3 months ago
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Stephanie Hsu
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Looking for inspiration to start on a cool project using the MSP430 microcontroller? Well, one of our community members, Greg Davill, recently built a LED matrix toy . Not only that, but he’s able to program and fit it all onto a small 8x8 bi-color...
Develop on the next generation MSP430 for single-phase metering applications
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3 months ago
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Jennifer Barry
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The MSP430F673x/F672x series is the first MSP430 SoC to target utility metering with a 24-bit Sigma-delta converter, industry's largest 320-segment LCD controller and battery backup system. Did we say industry's largest segmented LCD controller...
Building Smarter Robots with MSP430
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4 months ago
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Stephanie Hsu
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It’s the start of a new year, which also means new projects with MSP430! On buildsmartrobots.com, Eric Gregori recently posted about programming a HEXBUG Spider using a MSP430 Robot Controller Board. Take a look at his video and get excited to begin...
Tell Us Your Story About Making the Switch to TI MCUs
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4 months ago
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Alex Kephart
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Have you recently made the switch from a competitor’s microcontroller to a TI MCU? Or have you been using TI microcontrollers for years after ditching the competition? Maybe you’re using a C2000 real-time controller, a Hercules™ ARM®...
C3P-Ho-Ho-Ho: MSP430 powers a holiday sound and light show
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5 months ago
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Alex Kephart
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Check out this post from our friends over at hackaday.com. It seems Zach, a Hackaday hobbyist and MSP430 fan, figured out a way to program an MSP430 to operate the lights on his Christmas tree in response to the notes of the "Star Wars Main Theme"...
New MSP430 Part Number Decoder!
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5 months ago
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Stephanie Hsu
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Ever get confused when reading a part number, not knowing what each of the numbers and letters mean? Well, we have the solution to your problem with the newly updated MSP430 part number decoder! We noticed that on our MSP430 web page, the decoder seemed...
MSP430™ MCUs with Timer_D enable higher sensitivity and faster capacitive touch detection.
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5 months ago
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pradhyum
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One of the challenges in designing capacitive touch applications is the measurement of a very small change in capacitance between “touch” and “no touch” states. The new Timer_D peripheral in our MSP430™ ultra-low-power microcontrollers...
Introducing MSP430Ware and the brand new Driver Library!
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5 months ago
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AdrianFer
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What is MSP430Ware? MSP430Ware is a collection of code examples, datasheets and other design resources for ALL MSP430 devices delivered in a convenient package - essentially everything developers need to become MSP430 experts! In addition to...
Adding wireless to your MSP430 LaunchPad with ANT+
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5 months ago
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AdrianFer
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Jbremnant was on a mission. A mission to find a library for the ANT+ wireless protocol with both master and slave capability. Unfortunately, most of the available libraries were for slave-mode only. Fortunately for us, Jbremnant took it upon himself...
MSP430 Target Voltage view in CCS - New Video
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6 months ago
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Lisa TI
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Short video introducing the MSP430 Target Voltage view in CCS v4 and v5!
Energy Watchdog “barking” at you to go green!
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6 months ago
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Jennifer Barry
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I’m seriously stoked about the new Energy Watchdog Tool from MSP430 . I know what you’re thinking……”Finally, a tool to zap those annoying people in your workplace with an over abundance of energy!” Well, not quite. This tool is to create more awareness...
New production programmer for MSP430 is available now! Introducing the MSP-GANG
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6 months ago
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AdrianFer
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Name: MSP-GANG Production Programmer for MSP430 Part Number: MSP-GANG Price: $249 Order now! The MSP-GANG is a new production programmer for the MSP430 family of Ultra-Low Power MCUs, enabling developers to program up to...
A team of "Supermodels" and the MSP430!
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7 months ago
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Param Vora82690
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When 3pm crawls up on you at work, wouldn't it be convenient if you can model a cup of coffee on the computer, be able to zap it into existance, and enjoy a hot cup of joe shortly thereafter? Indeed...but since we all still co-exist in the realm of...
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