5438 experimenter board

Nick DiTrolio said:

Hello all, I would like to program my own logo on the 5438 experimenter board. Does anyone know the correct format the bit map has to be in and does anyone know how to convert a bitmap image to integers for the lcd display used on the experimenter board?

The MSP-EXP430F5438 Experimenter Board explains that, "The HD66753 is a Hitachi dot-matrix LCD with a resolution of 138 x 110, 4-level grayscale pixels."

Nick DiTrolio said:

I got a converter on the internet for 16 bit format, but it doesn't work correctly.

Try the MSP430 Graphics Library Image Reformer.  You will find it after clicking the, "Get Software," button on the MSP430WARE page.  I've attached a sample .c file.  Give it a try and report back how it turns out.

4188.image1.zip

Nick DiTrolio said:

Does anyone know the correct format the bit map has to be in and does anyone know how to convert a bitmap image to integers for the lcd display used on the experimenter board?

Try this program, which is a part of MSP430WARE, which in turn is a part of Code Composer Studio.

C:\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe said:

C:\TI\ccsv5\ccs_base\msp430\MSP430ware_1_25_00_29\examples\boards\MSP-EXP430F5438\src\ImageHit>ImageHit
ImageHit V1.0 - A command line image converter to create C data structures
that can be efficiently processed by HD66753-based displays.

Program by Andreas Dannenberg
(C)2011 Texas Instruments, Inc.

Usage: ImageHit [-v] file
  file   Input image file in either JPEG, PNG, BMP, or GIF format.
  -v     Cause ImageHit to be verbose, showing various image stats
         and rendering the actual monochrome image to the console.

C:\TI\ccsv5\ccs_base\msp430\MSP430ware_1_25_00_29\examples\boards\MSP-EXP430F5438\src\ImageHit>

Hi all,

           I found the image hit  project but I am not sure how to use that tool to convert image into pixels information.. Can anyone give me some suggestions how to use that tool.