ENERGIA BRINGS ARDUINO IDE TO THE TI LAUNCHPAD

The Arduino IDE is an abstraction layer for the AVR chip which the board is based around. So it’s no surprise that it is now possible to use the Arduino IDE with the TI Launchpad board. This makes it dead easy for beginners to play around with the inexpensive and low-power MSP430 platform. This is all thanks to a lot of hard work on part of the Energia developers.

The project branches from Arduino so the look, feel, and function are all about the same. many notably, the color scheme has migrated to red to match the board color of the Launchpad. You can configure the hardware the same way by selecting a COM port and target board. practically everything is already working, but you ought to check the known issues page so that you don’t try to use a function that hasn’t been ported. best now the list includes the random and random seed functions, as well as tone, notone, and micros. There is also an issue with analogWrite; it will only produce half the requested frequency and responsibility cycle can only be set from 0-50%. Still this is a great development if you’re many comfortable working from this IDE.