Yama and Walter, Thanks. I was not as clear as I wanted to be. Arduino (or Energia, an alternative) would be fine. I was speaking about using mspdebug, which is purely command line based.
Walter, I will play and then let you know about possible plug-ins. Turtle Art would be a much better solution for the kids. Thanks. Gerald On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 11:56 AM, Walter Bender <walter.ben...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 11:14 AM, Dr. Gerald Ardito > <gerald.ard...@gmail.com> wrote: >> I have finally got to work on this. >> Are there any GUI tools for the programming, or does it all have to be >> via command line? > > If you figure out some useful command lines, we could probably make a > TA plugin. (I've not got my hands of the device yet.) > > -walter > >> >> Thanks. >> Gerald >> >> On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 7:50 AM, Luis Galindo <llwwwl...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> I just bought the TI MSP430 to test it with the Xo 1.0. >>> >>> Thank you Yama :-) >>> >>> Luis >>> >>> El 10 de febrero de 2012 11:06, Peter Robinson <pbrobin...@gmail.com> >>> escribió: >>>> >>>> 2012/2/10 Yamaplos . <yamap...@gmail.com>: >>>> > The TI MSP430 chips are a very attractive alternative to add robotic >>>> > options for XO / Sugar users. "Microcontrolers" are the brain behind >>>> > many engineering hobby and educational pursuits, but many alternatives >>>> > are expensive or very hard to run in the XO. >>>> > >>>> > The TI Launchpad board, with a G2553 microcontroler and an extra G2452 >>>> > in the box, is available from Texas Instruments for $4.30 USD, >>>> > including shipping anywhere in the world (yes, hard to believe). >>>> > >>>> > http://processors.wiki.ti.com/index.php/MSP430_LaunchPad_%28MSP-EXP430G2%29 >>>> > >>>> > Here are the instructions for running the Launchpad with the G2452. >>>> > Maybe if the next iteratiuon of Sugar uses Fedora 15 we will be able >>>> > to use the G2553 as well. >>>> > >>>> > http://processors.wiki.ti.com/index.php/OLPC_XO-1 >>>> >>>> The next release will be based on F-17 but both those packages are >>>> listed. You might want to use one of the test releases based on F-17 >>>> that I've released (new one coming soon) to make sure it all works OK >>>> and feedback any issues to ensure we get them fixed for the final >>>> release. >>>> >>>> Peter >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> >>>> Lista olpc-Sur >>>> olpc-...@lists.laptop.org >>>> http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/olpc-sur >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Lista olpc-Sur >>> olpc-...@lists.laptop.org >>> http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/olpc-sur >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> Lista olpc-Sur >> olpc-...@lists.laptop.org >> http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/olpc-sur > > > > -- > Walter Bender > Sugar Labs > http://www.sugarlabs.org > _______________________________________________ > Lista olpc-Sur > olpc-...@lists.laptop.org > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/olpc-sur _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep