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i can make easy msp 430 programer?

DIEGO GUZMAN
Prodigy 40 points

Hi, I'm Diego, I live in BOGOTA, COLOMBIA. I can not buy 430 MSP programmer, I like to know if anyone has any single developer to build, because I want to learn to program this type of microcontroller

thank who can help me

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    Guru 74080 points

    Why are unable to buy a programmer? Is there no chance for shipping to your destination or what is the problem?

    Btw.: It is no good idea to open a topic called "question" - you should specify your concern in the title.

  • 0 in reply to Dennis Eichmann
    Prodigy 40 points

    thanks for your advice, I'm new here, I can not buy the programmer do not have the money for that,i think   I thought trying to make one that will serve me to learn, because I would love to ami will learn microcontrollers such programs, of which I have some samples that I got.

    very thanks

  • 0 in reply to DIEGO GUZMAN
    Guru 74080 points

    Which MSP device are you going to work with? Two really easy and cheap ways are:

    1) Build your own JTAG-programmer for the parallel-port

    2) Build your own circuit for using the bootstrap loader

    I would prefer 1) because you can't debug your code via the bootstrap loader. "Real" PCs normally still have the parallel-port, but laptops mostly come without it these days. USB to parallel-port-converters do not work in most cases, as they are only designed to establish a connection to an old printer, but cannot send data in both directions (maybe not all of them, but at least I haven't seen one that works).

    There are various schematics for parallel JTAG programmers - here is one that i built some years ago - I added an alternate power "AUX_VOLTAGE" because the printer-port on my laptop wasn't capable of delivering enough power (it worked perfectly on a normal PCs printer port).

    These are the options you can build on your own. Anyway...I think the launchpad is still the best way to start with MSPs. In my opinion there is no other development board that is easier for beginners and it is extremely cheap:

    http://www.ti.com/ww/en/launchpad/launchpads-msp430-msp-exp430g2.html#tabs

    It's only $ 9.99 and you can use it as an in-system-programmer as well. A lot of MCUs are supported. There are many code-examples making it easier to get into the world of microcontrollers. And the IDEs "Code Composer" and "IAR" are free, too (code size limited, but CCS offers 16kB of code size which is more than enough for beginners).

    Your choice :-)

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