Starting
So I started this blog because I got interested in home automation. After many Google searches I found the current commercial product either overpriced or functional very limited. I had some simple...
View ArticleStill alive
Ok so I wasn’t kidding when I posted not to expect something anytime soon. Well here we are over a year later with only the second post. Anyway even I wasn’t posting anything on the blog I did play...
View ArticleInstalling MSPGCC4 and MSPDEBUG on Kubuntu 10.04
A few weeks ago I decided to upgrade my PC from an older version of OpenSuse to Kubuntu 10.04. Here are my steps to install on Kunbuntu 10.04. I installed following packages via System Settings->Add...
View ArticleCompiling the first program
So now that we have mspgcc compiler and mspdebug tool installed we finally can write our own programs. To start we create the blinking led example. Here is the source code for main.c /* Blink LED...
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Loading code onto target msp and debugging
In the last post I finally compiled the blinked led example and created a makefile. Now we want to load program onto the target and let it run. First you need to connect your EZ430 to your computer. It...
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yesterday I had the unpleasant experience of a dead hard-drive. Fortunately nothing important was lost, but when I tried to get a Makefile example from my blog I noticed that the code section on the...
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experimenting with a incremental encoder switch
Here is a simple example of how to use a incremental encoder. It nicely shows how to handle buttons and interrupts with the MSP430. The particular encoder I am using is a Bourns PEC11-4020F-S0024 (...
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