Posted by Justin on January 29, 2013 – 8:44 am
Ok I am really sorry for the lack of updates. I lots of progress and projects to post about but in OCT, I had some crap piled on top of me.
I have f5510 usb stuff, a ultrasonic distance sensor like ping thats nearly done. some cool project boxes that I sprused up, new LFS builds and fixes that I have done.
custom battery for my heli, I’m sure I have forgotten a few……also I am super excited I have new happy hardcore vinyl!!
but lets not forget my plant hacks and a very quick ultrasonic cleaner that i needed for my ecig stuff.
so lots to come in the next month!
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Posted by jsolarski on December 10, 2012 – 10:49 am
Just a few pieces of sample code that I have thrown together to get a good understanding of how to make a f5510 work for me.
Also you can find more work of mine at http://43oh.com
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Posted by Justin on October 31, 2012 – 11:59 am
I just went to a Halloween themed flea market, in Dupage county, IL. not a lot of good picks, mostly junk (the all night flea market is much better). But I did find one thing. I found and purchased a Futba vintage receiver, from the 80′s I think. The guy originally wanted $80 for the thing, but I worked him down to $40. I know the battery is no good, but the servos work, transmitter is untested, no battery corrosion and all wires are in good condition, the receiver is also untested but I am sure it all works.
Now just to find a project for it 
Another new piece of equipment that a coworker had sitting in there garage, I bought it from them, since it was collecting dust and probably would have been sitting there for years to come, unloved and unused .
This tube tester was made by precision apparatus company, model 10-12, I couldn’t find a manufacture date on it but google shows that this one was made 20-40 years ago and is a top rated mobile tube tester.
Supposedly it can test antique and new tubes with out a problem.
I can’t wait till I can get this thing tested and up and running, because I have some tubes I need to test. I really hope it doesn’t catch fire when I first plug it in.
Advise for the day, you can find cool things almost anywhere, from your friends garage to that old rickety shop on the corner.
Posted by Justin on October 22, 2012 – 1:54 pm
Posted by Justin on October 22, 2012 – 12:22 pm
New toys came in the other day from the 43oh.com store.
I ordered 2x msp430f5510 USB dev boards, created By Robg , also I received a Stellaris Launchpad (on loan till mine come in) .
These are Nice little boards, and will work great for any one trying with a Launchpad and would like to try some of the bigger flagships. These are very easy to solder and get up and running.
To program them, all I did was connect the RST, TST, Vcc, Gnd between the launchpad and the dev board. Ran mspdebug, and it worked on the first try.
Sorry for the poor screen shot.
As of right now, I am working on porting msp430USBDev API from TI. It is both IAR and CCS code, and both will not work out of the box with mspgcc.
But with some minor changes I think I can get it to work.
There is a Port of the devpack, but It has an autogen.sh file that makes the makefile and links things automatically…… and in general I had issues with it, it compiled correctly but did not run on my 5510, even after I changed the minimal configuration options it gave.
Now I don’t know what the guy changed or what he did to get it to work other then some linker options about the usb buffer/ram.
I will give an update on this as soon as I get it to work.
