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

"jose inacio serafini [email protected] [msp430]" <[email protected]> Thu, 4 Sep 2014 15:03:17 -0300
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J.I.Serafini




2014-09-04 11:40 GMT-03:00 [email protected] [msp430] <
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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