Drive-Time. Dave rants randomly about TI's bold new entry into the hobby/hacker/maker market with the $4.30 MSP-EXP430G2 Evaluation Board, and what it's got to do with the Arduino
I liked my MSP430's back in the day. Now I've moved over to Arduino but I see there's an Adruino based programming option for them so I might play with these again.
I got into the MSP430 as I bought 20 of their Launchpads back when released. They cost £1.00 each at that time. Great buy, many still in use today!
I'm surprised that no one mentioned that the Launchpad is a 3.3 V board, while most Arduinos (all at that time) are 5 V boards. Add that to the fact that the Arduino pin layout is pretty bizarre (and was a mistake to begin with, historically) and that the MSP430s have a rather different configuration with the analog pins, etc., and there's no sense at all in making them shield compatible. They do make their own shields of sorts, but they have a lot less market presence. Arduino really took the world by storm and I don't know how.
But the Arduino layout isn't very good to start with, the Ti layout makes much more sense as the pins match up with the pinout of the chip, and pins are 0.1" apart. the Arduino UNO pins are a pain in the arse for stripboard prototypes because of that 0.05" gap.
Keep in mind this video was uploaded 3 years ago. Currently the board is like $10 but it's nice to have the programming board and then you can buy the chips by themselves for really cheap. If you like the size of the MSP430s then it's a really cheap way to get tons of projects done. Also, the MSP430 series does teach you way more about microcontrollers than the Arduino does. But I guess that depends on how serious you want to get.
7:11 thank god the launchpad does not I need a real debugger. I do not want to use a program that teaches lazy programming habits like digitalwrite() Is it really that hard to bit-mask a port? I am thinking not.
Oh my god!! Why am I watching this in 2017? Things changed a lot these days, with the rise of IoTs.
looks like your steering wheels on the wrong side of the car?
why TI should copy stupid arduino form factor?
I liked my MSP430's back in the day. Now I've moved over to Arduino but I see there's an Adruino based programming option for them so I might play with these again.
I got into the MSP430 as I bought 20 of their Launchpads back when released.
They cost £1.00 each at that time. Great buy, many still in use today!
I'm surprised that no one mentioned that the Launchpad is a 3.3 V board, while most Arduinos (all at that time) are 5 V boards. Add that to the fact that the Arduino pin layout is pretty bizarre (and was a mistake to begin with, historically) and that the MSP430s have a rather different configuration with the analog pins, etc., and there's no sense at all in making them shield compatible. They do make their own shields of sorts, but they have a lot less market presence. Arduino really took the world by storm and I don't know how.
But the Arduino layout isn't very good to start with, the Ti layout makes much more sense as the pins match up with the pinout of the chip, and pins are 0.1" apart. the Arduino UNO pins are a pain in the arse for stripboard prototypes because of that 0.05" gap.
Arduino like ide for launchpad done along with a bunch of libraries.
Called Energia
Keep in mind this video was uploaded 3 years ago. Currently the board is like $10 but it's nice to have the programming board and then you can buy the chips by themselves for really cheap. If you like the size of the MSP430s then it's a really cheap way to get tons of projects done. Also, the MSP430 series does teach you way more about microcontrollers than the Arduino does. But I guess that depends on how serious you want to get.
You got screwed, sorry.
It's now 10$…. I'll just go with STM32 discovery boards…
bro your driving on the wrong side of the car
Just ordered one 😛
They actually have made an arduino ide for the msp430 line
why is this only stupid talking from a car?
SHIT! Why haven't I seen your comment earlier!
7:11 thank god the launchpad does not I need a real debugger. I do not want to use a program that teaches lazy programming habits like digitalwrite() Is it really that hard to bit-mask a port? I am thinking not.
Pro: You get A LOT for $4.30
Con: You get TOO MUCH for $4.30
OMG YOU'RE DRIVING ON THE WRONG SIDE OF THE CAR
15:07 Ha! Hypocrite! I'm not sure if you'll ever read this, but you just did an unboxing video!
They can't really say its arduino compatible, because arduino is a TM.