[Sur] [IAEP] TI MSP430 running on XO 1 - Robotics!

[Peter Robinson]

On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 5:01 PM, Dr. Gerald Ardito
<gerald.ardito en gmail.com> wrote:
> Yama and Walter,
> Thanks.
> I was not as clear as I wanted to be. Arduino (or Energia, an
> alternative) would be fine. I was speaking about using mspdebug, which
> is purely command line based.

mspdebug is packaged in Fedora so it should be as simple as "yum
install mspdebug" on an XO

Peter

> On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 11:56 AM, Walter Bender <walter.bender en gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 11:14 AM, Dr. Gerald Ardito
>> <gerald.ardito en gmail.com> wrote:
>>> I have finally got to work on this.
>>> Are there any GUI tools for the programming, or does it all have to be
>>> via command line?
>>
>> If you figure out some useful command lines, we could probably make a
>> TA plugin. (I've not got my hands of the device yet.)
>>
>> -walter
>>
>>>
>>> Thanks.
>>> Gerald
>>>
>>> On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 7:50 AM, Luis Galindo <llwwwll77 en gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> I just bought the TI MSP430 to test it with the Xo 1.0.
>>>>
>>>> Thank you Yama :-)
>>>>
>>>> Luis
>>>>
>>>> El 10 de febrero de 2012 11:06, Peter Robinson <pbrobinson en gmail.com>
>>>> escribió:
>>>>>
>>>>> 2012/2/10 Yamaplos . <yamaplos en gmail.com>:
>>>>> > The TI MSP430 chips are a very attractive alternative to add robotic
>>>>> > options for XO / Sugar users. "Microcontrolers" are the brain behind
>>>>> > many engineering hobby and educational pursuits, but many alternatives
>>>>> > are expensive or very hard to run in the XO.
>>>>> >
>>>>> > The TI Launchpad board, with a G2553 microcontroler and an extra G2452
>>>>> > in the box, is available from Texas Instruments for $4.30 USD,
>>>>> > including shipping anywhere in the world (yes, hard to believe).
>>>>> >
>>>>> > http://processors.wiki.ti.com/index.php/MSP430_LaunchPad_%28MSP-EXP430G2%29
>>>>> >
>>>>> > Here are the instructions for running the Launchpad with the G2452.
>>>>> > Maybe if the next iteratiuon of Sugar uses Fedora 15 we will be able
>>>>> > to use the G2553 as well.
>>>>> >
>>>>> > http://processors.wiki.ti.com/index.php/OLPC_XO-1
>>>>>
>>>>> The next release will be based on F-17 but both those packages are
>>>>> listed. You might want to use one of the test releases based on F-17
>>>>> that I've released (new one coming soon) to make sure it all works OK
>>>>> and feedback any issues to ensure we get them fixed for the final
>>>>> release.
>>>>>
>>>>> Peter
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