[Lab] Launch Pad

[Tom Burns]

Hi Jean-Marc,

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.

Cheers,
Tom

On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 9:42 AM, Jean-Marc LeBlanc <
jeanmarc.leblanc at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
> ---
>
> "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
> >> ---
> >>
> >> "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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