LAUNCHXL-CC2650: the resource explorer cannot create new project for CC2650 launchpad

LAUNCHXL-CC2650 is for the evaluation of CC2650. TI recommends evaluating one of the following devices for additional features and more available flash memory:

• CC2642R: Supports Bluetooth 5
• CC2652R: Multi-protocol support for Bluetooth low energy, Zigbee and Thread
• CC2640R2F: Most up to date Bluetooth low energy (4.2) stack

In case you want to pursue using this launchpad, you can review the following steps I copied-pasted from an other thread I have answered before:

1.Go here: https://www.ti.com/tool/BLE-STACK and download BLE Stack v2.2 and CCS (both found in the download options tab).

2. Install CCS (default options only, and I selected only CC13xx/CC26xx device support).

3. Install TI-RTOS using http://downloads.ti.com/dsps/dsps_public_sw/sdo_sb/targetcontent/tirtos/index.html

4. In CCS: Project -> Import CCS Projects -> Browse -> c:/ti/simplelink/examples/cc2650lp/simple_peripheral

5. Tick off both ..._app and ..._stack -> click finish

6. Select the stack project -> click debug (the button with the green bug). This will build and download the project, but it will complain about not finding main(). That is ok, simply click terminate (button with red rectangle, or CTRL-F2). It also asked to update my debugger, I accepted.

7. Select the app project -> click debug.
- Here I actually encountered a problem as CCS claimed the right TI-RTOS was not installed. Not true since it comes with the BLE Stack. I did find the solution here though: https://e2e.ti.com/support/tools/code-composer-studio-group/ccs/f/code-composer-studio-forum/792184/ccs-cc2640-com-ti-rtsc-tirtoscc13xx_cc26xx-v2-21-1-08-is-not-currently-installed 

8. Click resume (button with yellow-green arrow, or F8).

9. Simple BLE Peripheral appears in the LightBlue app on my phone. 

More details about the process are found in the documentation: https://www.ti.com/lit/pdf/swru393 

I hope this will help,

Best regards,