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New Toys, Bigger msp430 and a stellaris launchpad

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Posted by Justin on October 22, 2012 – 12:22 pm
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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.

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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.

 

 

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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.

 

RFID + Back door = Easy Access

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Posted by jsolarski on July 10, 2012 – 3:47 pm
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Lately I have been lazy about getting into my home, early in the morning I dislike rummaging through my pockets to get out my keys just to go through 2 doors just to get in and sit down.  So I fixed this issue by making my patio door RFID accessible. With a few parts on hand and a whole bunch of time, I made a “patio un-locker”, because it only unlocks the patio door but does not lock it.

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micro heli hack failed

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Posted by Justin on June 23, 2012 – 1:25 pm
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I have a few brocken micro helicopters lying around and deciced.to try a quick experiment.
I removed the tail rotor and electronics and connected the 2 main rotors together, by a piece of meral coat hanger.

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What I forgot was, you need to have one of the rotors going the oposite direction to counter the rotation of the other one.

Failed but learned something. Back to the idea bin…..maybe I will create some fancy paper airplane.

Cold Heat Glue Gun Hack

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Posted by Justin on June 11, 2012 – 8:21 pm
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Since I am to cheap to buy a real glue gun, I decided to hack the crappy cold heat glue gun.
all tou need is a 5v source and some wire and a soldering iron.
just remember the positove terminal is the one closest to the nozzle .

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Now I never have to worry about the really crappy rechargeable battery that it came with.

My Sencore “Handy 75″

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Posted by Justin on May 21, 2012 – 5:09 pm
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Awhile back,  at the expermental music garage sale in Chicago,  I bought this cool looking device. It came in this nice metal case. I was planning on just using the case,  but what I found inside was interesting and I decided to leave as is for now…..
so here are some pics.

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