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Safe & Sound @ E14-CLEWE @ #6_Energia!
Welcome to another update on the E14 Custom Logging Explorer Wrist Equipped project with the Safe and Sound Design Challenge from Element 14.
This update is a quick one, I recently upgraded laptops for another project and had to reinstall some software, so I thought I would share really quick what I observed installing the Energia software to get it working with our MSP432P401R software.
- Energia.nu is the site to go to for downloading and reading up on this interesting IDE. Per their website:
“Energia is an open-source electronics prototyping platform developed by Robert Wessels with the goal to bring the Arduino and Wiring framework to the Texas Instruments MSP430
LaunchPad evaluation kit. Energia is based on Arduino and the Wiring framework and includes an integrated development environment (IDE) that is based on Processing.”
From their downloads page I was able to get the latest Windows version: Windows: Binary release version 1.6.10E18 (8/11/2016)
Download here: energia-1.6.10E18-windows.zip
On my previous machine I had everything setup for TI’s Code Composer but on this new one I was running fresh. So I followed their directions on getting the drivers downloaded.
First off they gave a warning that the MSP-EXP432P401RMSP-EXP432P401R requires that Energia be installed in a location without any spaces. This is pretty easy to follow since by default when I extracted the program to my Element14 folder there are no spaces normally and I went with their default naming.
Next they tell you to be sure your board is unplugged.
Now you are ready to download: MSP-EXP432P401R XDS110 Driver Package
They have both a 32 bit install file as well as a 64 bit, choose the appropriate one for your system. I went with the Dpinsta64.exe.
Kept everything default and it all went fine.
They say to finally connect your LaunchPad and it should automatically be recognized.
You can see the Ports and TI information for the XDS110 being recognized when the board is connected.
For some reason I had thought they meant the actual board would be recognized and I would see something like MSP423P401R.
After extracting appropriately and running the energia program (I placed a shortcut to my projects area for easy access), you get the IDE.
As you can see though above there is no MSP432P401R option. The guide says you just go to the board and choose the correct board.
But! Back on the main page under notes for Energia 18 they let you know: “Default the Energia installation comes with support for the MSP430. Other cores such as TivaC, CC3200, MSP432 can be installed through the board manager by selection Tools->Board->Board Manager. “
So clicking on that Boards Manager option above the Energia MSP430 boards list gives you:
Here we have 2 potential choices:
Energia MSP432 EMT RED boards by Energia or
Energia MSP423 boards by Energia. Both state that Boards included in this package: MSP_EXP432P401R.
Looking at More info and Online help didn’t help me. A little research and I found a pdf from Texas Instruments discussing the Black and the Red LaunchPad Development kits.
The Black kit is Revision 1 where as the Red kit is Revision 2. Being as my board is very Red and all of the other videos I have seen out there were Black and the boards did look slight different...
Version 1.
Version 2.
I choose the Red board option and clicked install.
Now I can see the RED LaunchPad w/msp432 available.
Generally one of the first things you try is to run the blinky LED sketch for testing. Above is a picture of my board before the IDE was setup and it is already continually blinking. I am not sure if it is supposed to do that, in fact I assume it is not otherwise why have me run the blink sketch. But a quick modification where I changed the blink time to 2000 and uploaded the sketch, then right away my blinks were 2 seconds lit, 1 second off.
I will be playing with this more in the next few days and will be sharing my trials and successes as well.
A couple of side notes:
- 1. I decided to add a 4 port powered USB switch instead of just pulling cords as needed. This lets me just push a button.
I will probably just wire this into a test platform eventually.
Pretty simple but I like it better than my previous pull each USB cord as needed.
- 2. Another box came in the mail!
Was a little surprised to see a pin bent at an odd angle, not sure how the bouncing inside of the box did that but those pins can be pretty “catchy.”
Huge thanks to E14 and Richard rscasny for getting all of these items shipped out. Thank you!
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