The BoosterPack family is expanding and I can’t wait to introduce our newest addition! Today, TI welcomes the new Audio Capacitive Touch BoosterPack that gives you the opportunity to “rock out” with your MSP430 LaunchPad. The plug-in board for the $4.30 LaunchPad, offers the ability to add MP3 playback and recording by having the Audio Capacitive Touch BoosterPack to microcontroller-based applications. And, for the first time, TI is offering a solution where the DSP is solely controlled by the MCU. This means the possibilities are endless for MCU developers wanting to take advantage of DSP functionality!

 I’ve played around with the new Audio Capacitive Touch BoosterPack for a few months now, and it keeps me entertained and organized. I use it to jam out to my favorite songs but also to record my to-do list. The next day, I play back my list and everything gets checked off.  

 The Audio Capacitive Touch BoosterPack is available today for the price of $30 USD for the next 30 days (normally priced at $34.99). This one-time promotional price is being offered in honor of TI’s 30th anniversary of digital signal processing innovation. 

We are now offering a solution where the DSP is solely controlled by the MCU! What other applications do you want to create? We want to hear back from you!

 Peter Chung is an applications engineer for the single-core processor team at Texas Instruments