rodan / proto430

development boards for msp430 microcontrollers

proto430

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BoosterPack-compatible development boards used for quick prototyping and interfacing with i2c/spi/uart-based devices

 source:       https://github.com/rodan/proto430
 author:       Petre Rodan <[email protected]>
 license:      BSD

Components

Collection of plug-in Booster-Pack PCBs compatible with the Texas Instruments LaunchPad development ecosystem. one board provides access to any 3v3 device via a serial interface, the other brings access to a graphical VFD display, a rotary encoder and also has infrared remote input. the two will be linked via i2c or spi.

project directory structure

• ./hardware/display.* - eagle-based schematics and pcbs for the spi-based Noritake VFD
• ./hardware/sensor.* - eagle-based schematics and pcbs for the i2c/spi/uart devboard
• ./hardware/vfd.* - firmware for the display pcb

testing is done with MSP-EXP430FR5994 development kits

Build requirements

you will need TI's excelent GCC toolchain or Code Composer Studio for linux and my reference libraries for msp430 micros cloned in /opt/.

cd ./firmware
make
make install

the devboard has been modified by adding a 16MHz high frequency crystal and two load capacitors. if these components are missing from your board then make sure to disable the USE_XT2 define from the Makefile or CCS.