Re: Re: Hello, I must be going . . .

On Thu, Sep 4, 2014 at 10:40 AM, [email protected] [msp430] <
[email protected]> wrote:

>
> I think this is very fascinating. I am just starting a class which uses
> the MSP430 (Physics 324 - Instrumental/Computer Interfacing) and was
> wondering why we are learning this microcontroller over the Arduino.
>
> I use a Mac, and I have been exposed to the various projects (hardware and
> software) on the Arduino platform, so I would have liked to use that
> instead. Just as the Arduino is easy to learn and make modular as a
> hardware platform, the MSP430 is powerful in being low-power and useful as
> an educational/demonstration tool for showing how a microcontroller works.
>
> However, I'm also wondering if someone has not already tried to make the
> MSP430 more like the Arduino in the sense of making it more general
> purpose, i.e.: masking the hardware complexities and removing the reliance
> on the Windows-based IDE.
>
> Is there anything in particular about the MSP430 which would make this
> impossible? I am just barely scraping the surface of the MSP430, but as a
> Computer Science major, I imagine that it might be as simple ("simple" used
> very loosely) as extending the TI C++ libraries and headers in order to
> extend functionality.
>

Sounds like you're talking about something like Energia ( http://energia.nu/
). From the website:

"Energia is an open-source electronics prototyping platform started by
Robert Wessels in January of 2012 with the goal to bring the Wiring and
Arduino framework to the Texas Instruments MSP430 based LaunchPad."