Me too =]<br><br>Interesting experiment powering one of these boys for months on a couple of capacitor! low power indeed!<br><br><a href="http://kennethfinnegan.blogspot.com/2010/09/msp430-low-power-experiment.html">http://kennethfinnegan.blogspot.com/2010/09/msp430-low-power-experiment.html</a><br>
<br>I followed this guide to get a modern toolchain running on linux:<br><br><a href="http://karuppuswamy.com/wordpress/2010/10/14/setup-build-and-debug-environment-for-msp430-mcus-using-mspgcc-and-mspdebug-in-ubuntu-linux/">http://karuppuswamy.com/wordpress/2010/10/14/setup-build-and-debug-environment-for-msp430-mcus-using-mspgcc-and-mspdebug-in-ubuntu-linux/</a><br>
<br>I think i had to tweak something, but i cant remember what, if anyone has a problem i might remember if they paste it here.<br><br>Mark<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 11:20 AM, Gordon JC Pearce <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gordonjcp@gjcp.net">gordonjcp@gjcp.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="im">On Sat, 2011-01-15 at 08:25 +0000, Ian Bitmap wrote:<br>
> Yay, got my msp430 kit from Ti - did anyone else grab one? Am thinking<br>
> about picking up their Chronos watch too..<br>
><br>
> Sent from my iPod<br>
><br>
> On 3 Jan 2011, at 12:33 PM, Martin McGrath <<a href="mailto:mcgrath.martin@gmail.com">mcgrath.martin@gmail.com</a>><br>
> wrote:<br>
<br>
</div>I got mine ;-)<br>
<br>
In a DVD case lying on the bottom of a cardboard box big enough to hold<br>
a basketball, with a couple of sheets of bubble wrap dropped on top...<br>
<br>
It all works though, and I've build, compiled and installed a simple<br>
"blink.c" proggy.<br>
<br>
Gordon MM0YEQ<br>
<div class="im"><br>
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