Energia - an Arduino IDE Clone for the MSP Launchpad - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: joseph.anand
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: August 18, 2012, 02:44:27 pm
content: I received my TI MSP Launchpad rev 1.5 boards from Element14 India and the first thing I did was look around for suitable C compilers. When I discovered that there is a GCC port, I felt it shouldn't be hard to port the Arduino IDE to it. I googled around (my ideas generally turn to be a few years lateso I did not want to reinvent the wheel) and sure enough I found an Arduino IDE clone for the MSP Launchpad called Energia.I have not programmed using Arduino before so no idea how it compares with it. Maybe others who have experience with it can comment on this. I have programmed in Processing (so atleast I know what setup() and loop() do). A simple set of test routines like LED blinking and reading ports seem to be working well. Need to try out with LCD interfacing.ps: I'm not sure this is news to anyone here, but a search on the forum for Energia did not return any hits.

author: joseph.anand
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: August 18, 2012, 03:24:07 pm
content: Here's the link:http://energia.github.com/Energia/

author: PedroDiogo
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: August 18, 2012, 03:36:17 pm
content: I tried to use Energia but on MacOS I couldn't get the serial port detected (driver issues I suppose, the support for the TI TUSB3410 chip is not perfect on MacOS). The documentation is far from perfect, but I hope it gets better.

author: joseph.anand
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: August 18, 2012, 03:46:25 pm
content: The only thing I am aware of is that you need to install the launchpad drivers before using Energia.

author: westfw
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: August 19, 2012, 08:20:44 am
content: Did you see this:http://www.43oh.com/2011/10/launchpad-osx-usb-cdc-vcp-driver-released/?There are earlier posts on getting (only) the debug port to work; check the TI forums.

author: cwalex
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: August 19, 2012, 08:41:09 am
content: Quote from: PedroDiogo on August 18, 2012, 03:36:17 pmI just installed it on my macbook pro mac os ver 10.7.4 by following the instructions on the getting started page here:https://github.com/energia/Energia/wiki/Getting-StartedIt specifically mentions that you have to install the launchpad drivers and gives you a direct link to download them.It seems to work fine, I only compiled and loaded the demo sketches blink and fade and they worked just fine. Looks like a cool software, now you can get started in embedded for incredibly cheap and really easy to use environment.

author: PedroDiogo
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: August 19, 2012, 02:25:06 pm
content: Quote from: cwalex on August 19, 2012, 08:41:09 amThat happened after I followed the getting started guide. The strange thing is when I connect my launchpad nothing changes when I run dmesg.They say to remove any codeless kext (specifically the ez430rf2500.kext), but I haven't installed any that I know of. I have the FTDI drivers installed, I will try to remove them just to be sure.