[Lab] Launch Pad

[Jean-Marc LeBlanc]

I found a pretty cool site that features every thing launch pad.
Including tutorials.
for those interested
http://www.43oh.com/

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 21, 2010 at 10:15 AM, Jean-Marc LeBlanc
<jeanmarc.leblanc at gmail.com> wrote:
> well since it is not bidirectional communications on the wire, one
> could wire it with a transistor very simply and a voltage divider but
> that would require a 5V power.  The schematics though claim that test
> point 1 (tp1 on the board) is the USB-Vcc and test point 3 (tp3 on the
> board) is the USB-Ground
>
> 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 21, 2010 at 9:45 AM, Tom Burns <tom.i.burns at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 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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