Ping-Pong Blinky

Ok, I bought the TI MSP-EXP430G2 Dev board a while ago, and it was about time I tried it out, as always, with LEDs and Ping-Pong Balls.

It fades between the colours.

You will need:
A 2xAA batery holder, with 2 AA batteries
A 9v battery clip
A small piece of copper stripboard, just large enough to cover the back of your battery holder, but not go over it
a TI MSP430 launchpad (really cheap, get it from proto-pic in the UK,, about $4.50 straight from TI, pluss shipping)
A Ping Pong Ball
A diffused Common Cathode RGB LED
3 pin headers
a jumper
a 14 pin DIP socket
a 10K resistor
Wire

Solder
Hot GLue Sticks

Hot Glue gun
Drill with 5mm bit
Soldering Iron

Step 1: Set up your development environment + programming the chip

If you have never used this development board before, you will not have a development enviroment.

The code was written for MSPGCC, and uploaded with MSPDebug - this is cross platform, a quick google will land you with the downloads

The code can be easily ported to CCS or IAR, which come free from TI

You can download the source code from my GitHub repo

Just compile it (or use the .elf provided) and use mspdebug rf2500 to program the chip (not applicable for CCS or IAR)



If this is your first upload, then congratulations, you have programmed your first chip :-D

Comments

[Mahmoud Alaa]

i have the same wire cutter

[ynze]

a video, a video, please please a video???????????????????

;-)

Y.

[DaShroom]

thou asked, and it shall be given unto thee (unfortunately it will still be filmed on my phone, so look awful)

Do you mean a video of assembly, or of the thing working ??

[darthgopher]

it would be very helpful for an assembly video.

[DaShroom]

Sure, though I am currently on holiday, so you must wait until I get home and can get new parts.

[ynze]

For me a video of the thing working :-)