[Lab] Launch Pad

[Jean-Marc LeBlanc]

Hi Tom,
Have you been able to interface your nes controller with the launch
pad?  I am having a bit of difficulty with my snes controller (they
are the same except the snes has 2 shift registers).  I think though
it is because the snes uses 5V and the launch pad operates at max of
3.3V.  I have not confirmed this my volt meter needs a new battery.  I
am just going off what I read online about the launch pad.  I am
thinking of replacing the shift registers inside so it works with a
range of voltages

Jean-Marc Le Blanc
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"Do you pine for the nice days of Minix-1.1, when men were men and
wrote their own device drivers?" Linus Torvalds




On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 10:22 AM, Tom Burns <tom.i.burns at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Jean-Marc,
>
> I've had a bit of time to play with it actually, I got mine a week ago or
> so.
>
> A couple tips:
> - the eclipse IDE was much easier to get working with a tutorial than the
> other IDE.  It does install a lot of debuggers that are useless to a
> launchpad user though.
> - write down the exact model numbers of the 2 chips you have.  I think the
> one in the board already is the MSP430g220x or something like that?  You'll
> need this number to get the right set of examples from the website and when
> setting up your eclipse project.
>
> I wrote a teeny-tiny game for mine... "who can press the button 10 times
> faster -> red or blue".  The code was a cut and paste hackery I did just for
> kicks but if you want I could share the project when I'm home tonight.
>
> My next plan I think is to interface it with an original NES controller I
> have laying around.  I never knew the NES controllers were just a shift
> register and that's it, very simple!
>
> Tom
>
> On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 10:17 AM, Jean-Marc LeBlanc
> <jeanmarc.leblanc at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>> I just received my launch pad from mouser after waiting like 3 months
>> lol.  I was wondering if some one had ordered it from TI and had a
>> chance to play with it?
>> I will be looking a trying it out in the next couple days if any one
>> is interested I can take notes on my experience to share with you too.
>>
>> Jean-Marc Le Blanc
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>>
>> "Do you pine for the nice days of Minix-1.1, when men were men and
>> wrote their own device drivers?" Linus Torvalds
>>
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