MSP432 Fun with IoT Workshop
TI Software Engineer, Mark Easley, walks a user through setting up and running the new MSP432 LaunchPad and Educational BoosterPack MKII. The user will also be exposed to the basics of adding...
View ArticleUsing The SensorTag To Log Flight Altitude
Recently I took a trip to the US, which offered a good opportunity to test my SensorTag altitude logger by recording a profile of the whole journey there. The trace revealed some interesting details...
View ArticleImplementing And Tuning A PID Control Loop On A MSP432 Launchpad
Gregory Holst, a Biomechanical Graduate Research Assistant at Georgia Institute of Technology, came up with an impressive visual demo of tuning PID control loops, using an MSP432. The demonstration in...
View ArticleTI IoT Week Series With The CC3200 Wi-Fi Chip and the Sharp BoosterPack
Follow Peter Oakes as he develops a system to monitor temperature and light levels to actuate a fan. The CC3200 Wi-Fi network chip acts as a controller as well as the gateway for sensor data. A Sharp...
View ArticleCapTIvate Multi-Touch With The MSP432
Rei Vilo has put up a detailed project on Hackster.io on using TI’s new capacitive touch development kit. The kit comes with a MSP430FR2633 microcontroller that is the primary interface to the...
View ArticleConnecting a SensorTag to the Losant IoT platform using NodeRed
Losant is an IoT platform with drag-and-drop workflow engine and loads of data visualization tools. The platform is free to use with the following limits – 5 Applications, 10 workflows and infinite...
View ArticleGoing retro with the MSP430 analog gauge clock
Daniel details his MSP430 clock build using the Value Line series MSP430G2553 with analog gauges to display time. He used a 32.768Khz watch crystal along with the on-chip watchdog timer to create a...
View ArticleBare metal MSP430 and Anaren CC110L BoosterPack RX/TX template for CCS
Inderpreet shares a simple RX/TX project using CCS on Github, using an MSP430 and a CC110L(a sub-1Ghz wireless transceiver) BoosterPack. This is a simple project where I use MSP430G2553...
View ArticleLog weather data with the MSP430 and CC3100 Wi-Fi network processor
This links to an old post from Kas’s embedded projects. Back in 2014, he was tinkering with the CC3000 Wi-Fi network processor, but then moved on to the newly released CC3100 with much better support....
View ArticleGPS tracking with an MSP430F5510 over GPRS
I found a tiny gem while browsing Github for MSP430 projects. This one is a GPS tracker based on a MSP430F5510 with a GPRS cellular connection for reporting and command input. The GPS is a FGPMMOPA6H...
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