Tuesday, March 15, 2016

The $5 FORTH Computer

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The MSP430 makes an excellent choice for a Forth Computer.  It already has a 16 bit architecture, and the Von Neuman  unified memory space m...
Sunday, March 13, 2016

ChipStick - A Diminutive Dev Board

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Chipstick - A complete "Retro" computer on a 40 x 11mm stick I have recently been looking at the MSP430 as a contender for ...

Diving Into Forth

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I have always had a soft-spot for the Forth Programming Language, since first hearing about it as a sixth-former in the very early 1980s whe...
Wednesday, March 09, 2016

Porting SIMPL to the MSP430FR4133 Launchpad.

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For the last few days I have been using the entry level, MSP430G2553 Launchpad for my code development. This was fine to begin with for ba...
Monday, March 07, 2016

SIMPLEX - Part 2 - Running SIMPL Code out of External RAM

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Running SIMPL Code out of External RAM In part 1 I looked at the bulk access to the RAM chip using streaming mode - which takes about 3uS ...
Sunday, March 06, 2016

SIMPL meet SIMPLEX - Part 1 - Putting it Together

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SIMPLEX - the EXtended Version Of SIMPL So I took SIMPL running on a LaunchPad, and added a 23K256 RAM chip with 6 jumper wires and a ...

SIMPL for Beginners - Part 1

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It's almost 3 years since I started on the SIMPL project, it has come a long way since it's early beginnings. This first post, in ...
Saturday, March 05, 2016

Interfacing SPI SRAM & FRAM to the MSP430

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This week I have mostly been experimenting with the low end MSP430 series of microcontrollers using the standard entry level LaunchPad. So...

More Nano Computing - The "Universal Microcontroller"

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In this post I discuss the idea of a "Universal Microcontroller" - a 40 pin plug in module that can host mcus from a variety of di...
Friday, March 04, 2016

MSP430 Serial Communications

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Fun with the MSP430F2013. I have been playing about with the MSP430F2013 for a couple of days now - and finding out what a wonderful littl...
Thursday, March 03, 2016

More MSP430 Machinations

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In the last few weeks I have been acquainting myself with the MSP430  - as a possible low cost candidate for future projects. There are li...
Friday, February 26, 2016

The Great MSP430 Bootloader Swindle

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Bootloading Blues. The MSP430 is a great little micro, and with some proper marketing, it could easily have provided an alternative to th...
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Saturday, February 20, 2016

Building WiNode 5 - Part 3

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Some five years have passed since the original WiNode design, and WiNode 5 - consider it to be the Anniversary Edition, has tried to ...