Digikey Shows The CC3200 Wi-Fi SensorTag In Stock And Ready To Ship
The much awaited CC3200...
Micrium µC/OS RTOS Now Free for Makers
Micrium recently released their uC/OS for Makers to use for free. uC/OS supports a wide range of micro-controllers, including MSP430, MSP432, C28x, Hercules RM and Hercules TMS570 controllers from TI. The Maker version excludes the CAN module, Building Blocks and the...
TI 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 LCD BoosterPack provides the front end for the system. You...
Implementing 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. https://youtu.be/fusr9eTceEo The demonstration in this video will show you the effect of...
Using 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 about the flights I took, and airline operations in general. Here's...
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 internet connectivity to a design using Temboo, via the CC3100...
New MSP430-GCC Release – v4.0.1.0
A new version of MSP430-GCC is now available base on GCC-5.3.0. This was announced on the mspgcc mailing list. We are pleased to announce a new stand-alone & open source Production release (v4.0.1.0) of MSP430 GCC available for download here. This MSP430-GCC...
TI’s BoosterPack Checker Now Accepting Your BoosterPacks
TI has released an "Add My BoosterPack" feature to their BoosterPack Checker tool on dev.ti.com. This allows you to validate your Boosterpack design. You add some basic information about your board first, followed by the pin configuration for the compatibility checker...