MSP430LaunchPad

This page is on Setting up and Projects for the MSP430 LaunchPad and MSP430 product line.

Code examples:

Coding under gcc

If you looking to play around with a Micro controller chip, but don't want to spend a lot of money. Then this new Development board from TI will fit your budget. Its called the MSP430 launchpad an starting as low as $4.35 from Digi-key, to $5.95 from other suppliers. Shipping was more then the cost of the board.

Temperature demo

Temperature with LED display

Temperature LED demo version 2

Timer example 1

MSP430 seven segment LED display CD4511

Knight rider LED effect

read from a Analog port

Resource links:

TI MSP430 Launchpad Wiki

Setting up in Ubuntu linux

Setting up in Linux

Photo above has header pins and SMD Crystal soldered in place.

What do you get for this low price:

Development board/Programmer/Debug board

Two 16 bit Micro Controller chips. The chip already in the socket 2231 had a built in Temperature sensor, 1 Watchdog/Interval timer, 1-16 bit, 8 ch. A/D converters, SPI/Ic2 interface. The other is a 2211 has just digital I/O, 1 Watchdog/Interval timer, 1-16 bit.

USB cable

32KHz SMD Clock Crystal

Header pins (Can be used to make your first shield)

TI has a free Development software/compiler(Windows), code examples, plus a large base of users producing projects and support.

If you run Linux there is a good base of support for it, and in which I use for my code development. See links on left side for setup.