Hi Jean-Marc,<br><br>No, I haven't had time to work on this unfortunately. Your hypothesis sounds correct though. Too bad, it'd be nice to use them without any modifications.<br><br>Cheers,<br>Tom<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 9:42 AM, Jean-Marc LeBlanc <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jeanmarc.leblanc@gmail.com">jeanmarc.leblanc@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Hi Tom,<br>
Have you been able to interface your nes controller with the launch<br>
pad? I am having a bit of difficulty with my snes controller (they<br>
are the same except the snes has 2 shift registers). I think though<br>
it is because the snes uses 5V and the launch pad operates at max of<br>
3.3V. I have not confirmed this my volt meter needs a new battery. I<br>
am just going off what I read online about the launch pad. I am<br>
thinking of replacing the shift registers inside so it works with a<br>
range of voltages<br>
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Jean-Marc Le Blanc<br>
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<br>
"Do you pine for the nice days of Minix-1.1, when men were men and<br>
wrote their own device drivers?" Linus Torvalds<br>
<br>
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<br>
</div><div class="im">On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 10:22 AM, Tom Burns <<a href="mailto:tom.i.burns@gmail.com">tom.i.burns@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
</div><div><div></div><div class="h5">> Hi Jean-Marc,<br>
><br>
> I've had a bit of time to play with it actually, I got mine a week ago or<br>
> so.<br>
><br>
> A couple tips:<br>
> - the eclipse IDE was much easier to get working with a tutorial than the<br>
> other IDE. It does install a lot of debuggers that are useless to a<br>
> launchpad user though.<br>
> - write down the exact model numbers of the 2 chips you have. I think the<br>
> one in the board already is the MSP430g220x or something like that? You'll<br>
> need this number to get the right set of examples from the website and when<br>
> setting up your eclipse project.<br>
><br>
> I wrote a teeny-tiny game for mine... "who can press the button 10 times<br>
> faster -> red or blue". The code was a cut and paste hackery I did just for<br>
> kicks but if you want I could share the project when I'm home tonight.<br>
><br>
> My next plan I think is to interface it with an original NES controller I<br>
> have laying around. I never knew the NES controllers were just a shift<br>
> register and that's it, very simple!<br>
><br>
> Tom<br>
><br>
> On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 10:17 AM, Jean-Marc LeBlanc<br>
> <<a href="mailto:jeanmarc.leblanc@gmail.com">jeanmarc.leblanc@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>><br>
>> Hi,<br>
>> I just received my launch pad from mouser after waiting like 3 months<br>
>> lol. I was wondering if some one had ordered it from TI and had a<br>
>> chance to play with it?<br>
>> I will be looking a trying it out in the next couple days if any one<br>
>> is interested I can take notes on my experience to share with you too.<br>
>><br>
>> Jean-Marc Le Blanc<br>
>> ---<br>
>><br>
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>> wrote their own device drivers?" Linus Torvalds<br>
>><br>
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