Easy & Powerful Arduino Alternative? #2 MSP432 Beginner's Guide

[@JustKyzuuh]

I'm sure my comment will get buried but it would be amazing if you did a video on CAN bus, what it is, how it works, and programming a microcontroller with an integrated CAN transceiver.

[@greatscottlab]

It is on my to do list

[@westly7rock]

@@greatscottlab Also you should look into FRC kids use CAN a lot for stuff like this. Here's a little preview of what it is www.thebluealliance.com/match/2018cmpmi_sf1m13

[@KlockworXMusic]

CAN is pretty simple, as well I don't know of any microcontrollers with built in CAN transceivers (EDIT: NXP has one Cortex M0 microcontroller that has a CAN transceiver built in, toted worlds first). But CAN works using 3 voltage levels, in a 5v system that would be 0v, 2.5v and 5v. All CAN does is drive the HI line to 5v and LO line to 0v to power the device and transmit a binary value of 1. To transmit a 0, it drives both lines to 2.5v. So basically if you have a differential in voltage across the pins you get a 1, if there is no differential you get a 0. CAN uses 2 or 4 wire for interface, with 2 wire providing power and communication all in one, and limits how many 0's can be sent in a row before the device loses power and resets, while 4 wire provides power on 2 wires and uses the other 2 for communication to get around how many 0's can be sent, although 4 wire sort of defeats the purpose of CAN protocol.

[@FowlerAskew]

Sparkfun has an According to Pete video about CAN bus that's fairly detailed: kzbin.info/www/bejne/j6fWeKiBbrqjZqc

[@vasekdvor]

As well as Transformerless power supply. @GreatScott! .

[@BenBuildsDIY]

Georgia Tech electrical engineering student here. GreatScott did a great job making the MSP432 DevKit from TI seem easy to work with. In practice however, the TI software is a massive headache to work with. The hardware is top notch, but for most DIY applications the Arduino will be much more easy and rewarding to work with. TI’s development software and associated drivers cause many problems during installation and use sadly.

[@norm1124]

Did you try the unified IDE "platform.io"? This should allow seamless Code transition.

[@GRBtutorials]

Or just use the STM32 he talked about in another video.

[@R3MIXMODZ]

Thats exactly what I was thinking too..

[@freyd6768]

I have to agree with that. I have used both Atmegas and MSP430s. I absolutely love the features of MSP430 better (one of my favorite is that their clock generation and routing system is far more intuitive and flexible to me). However, the TI software might be a bit rough depending on what you are trying to do.

[@AlexRhodesMV]

The TI ecosystem, like Halcogen and CCS, are not ever going to be as easy to work with as Arduino. As mentioned in the video, they are actual engineering tools. If you get over the hump and begin to master those tools, it opens up the massive TI ecosystem/platforms/device families.

[@LucasHartmann]

Two important features missed in the video: Full debugging, and hardware floating point. Also check the tiva connected launchpad, I'm using it on most of my lectures.

[@jimb032]

Cool! I'm glad to see someone that's not bashing. I like it, I have a couple, but I never had a big use case for it even so I like it so much.

[@LucasHartmann]

@s bright as far as I can tell, Stellaris was cortex M3, no floating point. Tiva replaced the stellaris with pin and api compatible parts, but cortex M4F with hardware float. TM4Cxxx parts are listed as active on ti's site.

[@kristopherburney7212]

I work for TI, but in the lprf category of of micro controllers! This is pretty cool to see from a KZbinr I always watch:)

[@danrbarlow]

Can you please tell them that silicon with errata is unacceptable? I really like the MSP architecture but I absolutely will not buy a product that is not as described.

[@kristopherburney7212]

@@danrbarlow I can understand your frustrations. Unfortunately I am a wee software developer with no power over the silicon gurus. That being said though, I believe every chip I've ever used had an errata. I think it's more of a inevitable consequence of complex devices :/ though maybe there are plenty of chips that work 100% as expected with no deviation. Then again, I'd be willing to bet that's only because no one has found the little deviations that exist :p

[@kristopherburney7212]

@@danrbarlow , whether or not this fits the experience you have had in the past with the MSP line. I found this that does much better than I could at explaining it errata. electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/181395/silicon-bugs-errata-sheets , cheers!

[@idogendel]

I remember the days of the $4.30 MSP430G2 Launchpad... it was a huge promise, but TI either didn't understand or didn't care about the hobbyist market and Arduino won easily. Anyway the MSP432 is a totally different beast; and there are also some interesting offerings now in the MSP430 range, of chips with FRAM. Just always remember to read the Errata! ;-)

[@IrishSkruffles]

Most large semiconductor companies don't care about the hobbyist market as it's very small compared to companies using them in their products

[@idogendel]

That is true, and I don't blame them :-) However, the MSP430G2 Launchpad, with the Energia and all that, really gave the impression TI was trying to enter the maker arena. To this day I'm not sure what it was all about!

[@idogendel]

Again, I have no inside knowledge and I don't know who was thinking what - but yeah, if you create a product that looks and feels like some existing product, and you sort of direct it as the same audience, and you even sell the hardware at a loss... kind of gives the impression you're competing ;-)

[@XTL_prime]

Not to mention that they took over GCC porting and buried it for the critical years completely stalling its adoption until it was too late.

[@idogendel]

Oh? I wasn't aware of that aspect. Sounds like another classical example of corporate thinking... :-/

[@kabelloseskabel7029]

1:23 JLC-pcb doesn‘t like that. :-D

[@KaranveerSingh97]

😂😂😂

[@emadeloc]

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[@MarionMakarewicz]

"Stay Creative" is great for the t-shirt, but I would totally buy a "and just like that!" tagline shirt. Your optimism is infectious.

[@lucasfarinhabosio6306]

Great video. The MSP432 (and MSP430 too) Launchpad is NOT a hobbyist tool, but it's still an awesome tool for learning about microcontrollers in depth for more professional use. In my university, PIC microcontrollers are used for classes, but I learned a lot with my own MSP430 Launchpads. TI has some pretty good documentation.

[@KillJD]

Is the Launchpad good for learning microcontrollers in depth for a hobbyist?

[@samuelsfilms]

Can't wait for DIY drone project!

[@greatscottlab]

Wait for it.....

[@mokshpatel6986]

Sir Can you try make this dron plz..... kzbin.info/www/bejne/oZ7TqZ6BppithKM

[@ceneblock]

@@greatscottlab How's that quadcopter going? 😜

[@atrav477]

WoW

[@zeljkoradojkovic6159]

Somewhere in the middle of december, i visited Texas Instruments HQ in Munich (or near Munich to be precise) with a group of students from all over the Europe. It was a small student workshop with EESTEC student organization. I was the only one with some background in microelectronics and semiconductor physics, and, i can say, that visit was a wet dream for me. I had a chat with a couple of their engineers, they showed us around their labs a bit, held a presentation on IoT systems, self driving cars, and gave us TM4C1294 development boards. I can't wait for my exams to pass so i can dive right in into the world of dev boards. I have a couple of interesting ideas, and i hope i'll be able to do them.

[@SuperbTech]

Congratulations for 1 million subscribers!

[@greatscottlab]

Thanks

[@dodomorandi]

A detail that you could be interested in: MSP432 seems to be programmable in Rust (Arduino and AVR in general are not totally supported at to date), which could bring to some nice coding experiments. Great(scott) work, as always!

[@ZeroPointAlpha]

Limited development information for beginners sounds like something TI would do. TI: "Hey, check out our Beaglebone Black! It has 2 200MHz microcontrollers with DMA so you can do incredible things with them!" Beginners: "Neat! How do you do that?" TI: "¯\_(ツ)_/¯"

[@GRBtutorials]

Wow! This is the first video in, like, one year that’s *not* sponsored by JLCPCB! I’m not sure I like TI, though. They have a monopoly on calculators in education in the US and make sky-high profits from them, selling them at $100 when they make them for just $15. Did you know that they still use the Zilog Z80 from 1976, clocked at 15 MHz?

[@yeet1337]

Why is using a micro from 1976 a bad thing?

[@FowlerAskew]

They don't have a monopoly. You can buy whatever calculator you want. All they've done is make resources for learning how to use their calculators very easy to come by. Now that tons of people use their calculators, it's the easiest one to learn, so now people buy them, etc.

[@Segphalt]

@@FowlerAskew Many standardised tests in the US only allow the use of specific TI calculators. This makes them an effective monopoly. I used a Casio calculator for my actual school work and would have to borrow a TI caclulator for almost any standardized test as my Casio was not allowed in the exam room.

[@FowlerAskew]

@@Segphalt What tests were they? I never took any standardized tests that only allowed TI calculators. I know the SAT, ACT, and AP tests have a massive list of calculators you can use

[@p4rsec]

@@Segphalt Plenty of exams allow HP and Casio branded graphing calculators. The problem is that most curriculum is based off of the TI calcs. But I mean, despite their insane price, who wouldn't? They're damn good calculators. And I'd argue that, while it's still shitty to price them that high, they DO last *forever*. I mean you buy your kid one in HS and they're good through college, master's (unless they're an engineer and need a TI-89), etc etc.

[@trinidad17]

6:15 Love seeing support for the little known "whiltle ()" command in Energia environment

[@felipedb5804]

This channel is very good. Even if you do not understand anything. Only these images of these plates, these components, these sketches on paper are already very gratifying, and already pay my like. I speak from Brazil

[@Chaoddity]

Dayum. A sponsership from one of the biggest in the business. You really have earned it though- this channel is possibly the best EE channel on youtube.

[@rithasoulimane8293]

Hi Can you make a DIY or BUY bluetooth talkie-walkie ?

[@UpcycleElectronics]

Wouldn't that have terrible range? I think LoRa would be better wouldn't it?

[@hardtry2035]

And isn t it called Walkie-Talkie? Somehow its sounds wrong the other way around lel :P

[@ventusprime]

good idea intresting projek if you van use home com system

[@mr.diyventor8925]

Visit me also, thanks :)

[@jfk4229]

Have a look at the DRA818v/u modules!

[@sagarshubham8660]

Hi @GreatScott, great video as always. As someone who has worked with TI MSP430 (8 bit controllers instead of MSP432 32 bit) and TI Stellaris TM4C123G series micro controllers over 5 years, I totally agree with you on CCS having a higher learning curve than the simple Arduino IDE. However if one uses CCS well they can get some great mileage out of their microcontrollers and use them at their best. Also, there is TI E2E Community where people can look up problems and issues they might face using different controllers.

[@giannebaron6139]

WHAT?!? TEXAS INSTRUMENTS AS A SPONSOR? Damn your channel progressed so much since I started watching your videos, I still remember one of the first sponsored videos. Keep up the good work!

[@smhedge]

Anyone else catch the fact that he starts soldering wires to a board while it is powered up starting @ 0:19 ?

[@MrJason005]

Why did you cut a PCB trace at 3:14? And why are you talking about timers in 6:00 while in 5:55 you were talking about analog write (i.e. DAC)?

[@gudenau]

It's really good that they keep AIBI support for the Arduino. Prevents some really screwy bugs from showing up.

Pretty cool to see a TI around. You should also make a video about esp IDF. That project is evolving quickly!

[@kesmik]

Well I know that most viewers have no idea how exactly hardware works and Arduino LIKE IDE's are much easier to create a functioning code, but I like that you are mentioned other tools also, where you have all that you need to work with hardware and also debug it. By the way there is Quantum leaps channel which covers microcontrollers programming deeply. If anyone is intrested to learn more deeply I recommend that dude. He also uses MSP lounchpad (not sure if it is the same) so maybe it will be easier to start for beginners.

[@kesmik]

@s bright no everything is fine to use simple methods. Especially that arduino is fine for most of the projects. I wrote this comment because 1. I prefere bare C personal, 2. He mentioned eclipse based IDE, 3. I remembered Miro channel because of board itself and though that maybe there is some people who wants to dig deeper ir hardware. I hope it is ok for Scott.

[@andrewkline]

Hey, there's a page on Facebook that ripped off one of your videos to advertise their product.. the name of the page is 'for my home' or 'for your home', can't remember. Not sure if its worth the time to chase em down, or maybe you sold the rights legit. Just a heads up.

[@yatharthagarwal2041]

Amazing board just needs a community like Arduino!!!

[@shivashankar28]

No, we don't need that sorry :)

[@09raaul]

You should take a look at the TI MSP430 launchpad. I would say it the board to compare with the Arduino uno. It would be great to see a comparisons between those two.

[@ChipGuy]

I am currently working on a project utilizing the MSP432P401. And I have to say that the entire team is rather dissapointed. The controller has a few severe bugs and the documentation is attrocious, which is unusual for TI. Just two examples: The UARTs are meant to be almost compatible to the MSP430 ones. The diagrams in the datasheet are even suggesting that. But it's wrong. The UARTs even have a bug generating stop bits and generating interrupts. Gladly some advanced coding could tackle this but it took a few days to figure everything out. A detailed documentation about the interrupt system is not part of any datasheet, but is only availabe as part of a toy documentation (maybe that's your robot, I don't know). That's not how it should be and I wonder how TI managed to screw up these essential things. Usually they do much better than that. However the power consumption compared to the MSP430 is very good. At 12 MHz it takes around 1/3 of the current a MSP430 would take while it is around 10 times faster.

[@tanmay8017]

I have used the MSP432 in a Texas Instruments workshop and the energia is basically arduino exe in red.

[@sandeeppatel7351]

Dear i have temprature indicator with m430

[@avijitbanik531]

I would like to recommend the PIC microcontroller.

[@R3MIXMODZ]

This is very cool and informational and all, but I think it takes out the fun of developing from scratch with an Arduino. Although this has more functions, I dont think I'd find myself to use many of them that are not on the arduino.

[@tyttuut]

Have you done anything on the ESP32 yet? I've heard a lot about it, but I haven't started digging into the platform yet.

[@MathewPanicker1010]

He's done a WiFi controlled led vid with it

[@shivashankar28]

Nah, just buy the Wifi chip only and use an STM32 microcontroller. you dont need a esp32 board

[@TediumGenius]

Another GREAT video 'Scott!' I forwarded this two a few friends who homeschool, and one who has a brilliant child interested in programming. Well, maybe the other kids are brilliant, too, but I just don't know them well enough!!! :P This is a great low-level introduction with information about taking it further!!! Thanks for all your great videos!!!! Excellent production too!!!!!

[@GrenPara]

Hello, I started watching your channel more recently and it is great. I am learning so much between watching and reading. Thanks for making these videos.

[@greatscottlab]

Wonderful!

[@foamyrocks665]

Congrats on the TI sponsorship! But 2 things to note : Energia is a huge rip off of Arduino IDE, I don't understand why they had to reskin it and add a different name just so you can use their library. Second, the CCS is a huge headache and it's the type of IDE used now in all embedded envoriments, where the vendor created all the functions you need.

[@kevinnicholls1017]

Thank you. Your channel is excellent and constantly encourages me to be a better person. I come from CCS and the MSP430 but got distracted by the WiFi capability of the ESP8266 and ESP32. I really appreciate your hard work providing such great content. Cheers, Kevin

[@MegaSteamfreak]

You could also take a look at Microchips microcontrollers (Microchip bought Atmel a few years ago) in combination with MPLAB X and the Microchip Code Configurator. They are used in the Industry as well. You could also take a look how to program the STM32 with STM's Atollic TrueStudio.

[@callumleask1053]

You psychic, got one of these boards as a gift like a week ago and look there's a video on it, terrifying but educational

[@lakeesiv123]

RIP JLCPCB

[@JustKyzuuh]

What happened?

[@greatscottlab]

Wait for next weeks video.......

[@ShomiTheGreat]

It's the Chinese New Year. They've been out of function for 4 and 6 layer PCBs for several days now, and I think 1 and 2 layer PCBs are out of production as well now.

[@TheS1l3ntOne]

@@greatscottlab oh yeah I know your next video will be sponsored by JLCPCB.

[@filipeoliveira4767]

Hey Scott! Would you consider making a video on PICs? They are used a lot but mostly by big companies, so they don't have an online community anywhere close to the Arduino community. I think it would be interesting to explore such microcontrollers. There are tons of different models and they are very versatile. Thank you for making such amazing videos!

[@greatscottlab]

It is on my to do list

[@sol-ke]

Hi GreatScott! Love your content. Is there a chance that one day you'll create an introduction to Electronics course here on KZbin for us noobs?

[@green4free]

I think that the teensy 3.6 or 3.5 are both great microcontrollers. One of them could be interesting to do a closer look at.

[@TheIceLeopard]

That isn't too bad for the price. I hope you got more planned for this kit. I would like to see the limits of the basic kit, then if possible the advanced kit.

[@snnwstt]

I got the newest version few weeks ago (November 2019) and it does not require any welding anymore (unless you add an optional LCD or OLED display to it). It also uses CSS version 9 (looking familiar if you know, say Microsoft Visual Studio, wit extra views and add-ons to debug a MCU after all) and the TI's site seems more up to date too, with a lot of new stuff. Seems that TI is pushing hard to promote it. Less "details" are required to install the soft, with a more straight approach from the doc too to use it. Still, the later online tutorials are clearly perfectible though. They, TI, don't seem to have clearly identify the intended audience yet (sometimes too basic, sometimes too many details obscuring rather than explaining, ... ). The hardware seems really great though, impressive.

[@austinfay6287]

Hey... you should do a video on the new RISCV based Vega-board. It’s one of the newest microcontrollers that uses the open source RISCV instruction set. The Vega-board also has a lot of onboard features like user LEDs, buttons, Bluetooth le, an accelerometer, and a couple other things

[@Tubaii25]

Since you've tried this one, try one of those generic STM32 F4 cortex M4 nucleo or discovery boards. I saw your video on the STM32 'blue pill'.... They are quite powerful and have plenty of GPIOs to offer! The nucleo boards have on board accelerometer as far as I know...

[@kyoudaiken]

Do you happen to know if they will or have released a Nano like version of this? I am not interested in the robot part, but rather interested in other projects.

[@loganross656]

Good job! A sponsor by Texas instruments is huge!

[@vladomaimun]

May I suggest you do a comparison between STM32, TI launchpads and other microcontrollers from the same class?

[@adlerweb]

Jepp - kind of weird first mentioning STM32F1/Bluepill and then not including it in the comparison table - maybe because numbers wouldn't look as good for TI when just skimming over ;).

[@VictorSoares9]

Any plans to make a video about taking a prototype board to production?

[@greatscottlab]

Not really

[@DarkMuhahaha]

The Adafruit SAMD51 and SAMD21 families are great arduino alternatives which are much more powerful. 96-120 mhz clock speeds, tons of peripherals, and even a drag&drop bootloader and a port of adafruits micropython fork (named Circuitpython). If you haven't already you should def. check them out.

[@steven44799]

The Sierra wireless mangoh red/green kits are really powerful. But they are arm based and run Legato Linux (they are still programmed in c) they provide a virtual box vm that's setup to be a ready to use ide (or you can build your own), but some of the documentation could stand to be a bit easier to follow. It's designed to run off of a single lipo battery for IOT applications so the gpio is all 1.8v or 3.3v depending on if it's direct to the chip or the raspberry pi compatible header.

[@strapatser9427]

the TI-board may be more expensive then an arduino clone from china, but it is arround the same price for a genuine arduino uno from arduino.cc. The subscribe button with 1M written in still puts a smile on my face everytime I see it under one of your vids.

[@robinkalis8889]

Besides every think about the video i have A question Is it possible to charge A battery pack with 2 of more diffrend voltages? Because I want to charge the battery pack with solar panels and a windmill

[@NeariX846]

I like how you got sponsored by someone and actually telling the truth about them. those negative aspects of that product have to be mentioned, so that the community knows if it is worth a try and the company knows how to improve their product. Stay Awesome!

[@grapes008]

while it may lack some of the performance of thing like the Arduino system, PICAXE is great for starting out. easy for making custom boards and allows for very fast prototyping. and is more than good enough for most projects.

[@bfgillan]

I've between using an arduino YUN for a couple years, but keep.hotting memory limits. Would be difficult to port my application to this? I use temperature sensors, hx711, i2c displays, and IOT protocol.

[@arijitdey8316]

You got the best to sponsor so far, hats off carry on

[@billywhizzy]

Great Video! You make my life so much easier. I appreciate the time it takes you to go through all the research pdf's and compile them into an informative and well planned video. Scott is Great!!!

[@mizarstifmeister7298]

6:15 WHILTE, that code wont compile

[@SugarBeetMC]

Regarding other alternative MCUs, I have been looking at Atmel/Microchip's ARM MCUs, the ATSAMD21 and 51. Adafruit put out the Metro Grand Central with the '51 in the Arduino Mega form factor.

[@MarksGoneWicked]

Have you worked with any Parallax microprocessors? The Basic Stamp, and Propeller?

[@greatscottlab]

Not yet

[@JLBShecky]

@@greatscottlab I'd really be interested in seeing what your thoughts on them. I know that the Propeller has come a long way since I did stuff with it back at its launch, which now that I think about it was quite some time ago now. It didn't have a mature c dev ide back then, and its 8 core interruptless design was definitely different to work with.

[@padmalayarawal3091]

Can u plz make a video on how to use attiny10 with Bluetooth module?

[@rithasoulimane8293]

Can you make a touch screen controller tutorial such as the AT42QT1050-UUR Please response

[@erwinboy10]

You should have a look at the MSP430 and the CC3220S (the last one is more advanced) both are from TI

[@abdulazeez.98]

Congrats on the 1 Million subscribers!

[@DJkillstyler]

Yo GreatScott, i have some ideas for projects you can try/create to make a new video :D 1. a mobile car heating for the driver area and windows 2. a present card, and if you open it will play your music 3. a little spy cam with memory for videos Hope this are good concept s for you ;p

[@MarcelRobitaille]

What's your source that engineers use it (at the end). I would say some engineers simply use gcc with whatever ide they want.

[@Scigor]

Congrats for the 1 Million subscribers! Keep on!

[@sd4dfg2]

I use CCS with the MSP430. I wanted to access/see the low level hardware I knew was being hidden from me with Arduino. It took a bit of time and a (now outdated) book, but I got the basics down - clocks, timers, interrupts, gpio, LPM. ADC next. There are lots of examples on the internet, but not nearly as many as for the Arduino.

[@arifnadeem2004]

Please try to show some work with PIC mcus their programming with pickit3...

[@insanitywolf05]

Nice video. What about nrf52832 and nrf52840? There is a nice free IDE for the SDK (segger embedded studio) and growing Arduino support. These arequite interesting because they're low power and have multiprotocol radios on board. They seem to be underrepresented in the hobbyist scene.

[@bitcharacter2824]

Is it possible for you to try out the XLR8 FPGA board? It is Arduino-compatible, plus Arduino themselves recently released their own new FPGA board. I'd love to hear your opinion of them.

[@stefanfr992]

How do you think about MicroPython? A nice replacement for Arduino?

[@DantalionNl]

Do any of the used software packages to compile and upload code to the MSP432 work on Linux or Unix based operating systems?

[@Tim_Small]

I'd recommend trying Rust on these boards under Linux, nicer than using C and the Arduino environment...

[@sandeeppatel7351]

Can you tell about how to connect msp430 microcontroller with pc is there any require any bootloader

[@jimb032]

Another Idea for one to try:. Link it connect 7681. Dev board for the Mediatek 7681. You find it in alot of wireless products too. Although you might argue it's a bit too close to an ESP8266.

[@조민혁20]

If i need to use arduino ide, can i use it? Looks like it's works if i add supported board manager to.

[@ee4life623]

I still have my old MSP430 from my microcontroller/embedded system class in college and yeah it is definitely one of the worst MCU's when it comes to programming as a beginner/hobbyist at least when it comes to bitwise operations on registers and clocks, etc. My final engineering class project required us to use a MCU for interfacing with an antenna and we chose an Arduino, before I had never even programmed an Arduino and once I took a look at the code I needed to enable communication I was shocked at how easy it was, lol. Still found myself going back to my MSP430 for hobbyists projects since now I want to master this MCU the way I couldn't back in college. "We choose to build our projects on the MSP430, not because it is easy but because it is hard." -Kennedy, maybe

[@DantalionNl]

I saw 8 channel DMA in the datasheet, I wonder how easy it is to access the DMA features using the Arduino IDE?

[@nishantlaxmikant5899]

great by the way what kind of languages have learnt to all the programming

[@error53ish]

I'd love to see how you would go about building your own basic robot vacuum cleaner. Maybe make it into a DIY or Buy video?

[@abhijitmajee6754]

Can you do a complete video on microcontrollers and their specific uses in various projects? Also some resources for learning microcontrollers would be helpful.

[@ShadowriverUB]

Microcontrollers are more pripietery low end low power CPUs that main purpace is control GPIO general purpice IO to run programs that control electronics using programable pins on GPIO interface. So it practicly a lowest of low end computers just for controling electronics. just to proof the point Rasburry Pi is ARM computer, but it has GPIO interface which let you use it same way as ardino, but ofcorse Pi is more powerful hardware and let you do more then that and incorporate GPIO in to it, while ardino can only control GPIO

[@abhijitmajee6754]

@@ShadowriverUB Thanx for the explanation. That's nice way of putting the comparison.

[@Zenarisu]

hey how are you soldering that well and can you teach us in a video

[@Hero_Roy113]

What is this 470 thing? On my BMS for my ion battery pack?

[@ladaspk970]

Hello Great Scott, please would you do guide how to programme and use: STM32 Nucleo-64 L476NG and STM32F429IDISCOVERY (model with 2.4" QVGA TFT display ). Thank You.

[@TheS1l3ntOne]

I can't wait for your quadcopter

[@MaltWhiskey]

I love the teensy 3.5 microcontroler. I build a 9x9x9 rgb led cube using it (and 18 tlc5940). It’s so fast, has lots of timers, dma, rtc and many more usefull features. It’s not as cheap as arduino clones... You can use teensyduino in the arduino ide or Eclipse (sloeber) which is much nicer in my opinion.

[@tomislavkerezi1850]

Hi, have you tried using Atmel studio to write code for an arduino or any other Atmel MCU?

[@greatscottlab]

Yes

[@tomislavkerezi1850]

What are your thoughts on it vs the Arduino IDE?

[@raykent3211]

I've done AVR assembler for an early Atmel chip, the S1200, same AVR family, pre-arduino, using Atmel studio (if I remember rightly! ). Also eclipse? Years ago, sorry. If you're finding the arduino environment limiting you can bypass any bit of it, or all of it. An example, the mozzi libraries for sound synthesis hijack a timer from "the arduino environment". As a user, I can write my program in the arduino environment remembering that I can't use that timer. No more complication than that. It's clever. The underlying GNU C++ compiler will pass through assembler, so does not limit the user. And the superficial arduino icing on the cake allows that pass through too.

[@jimlangley840]

I find electronics hard to understand, that said, what should I salvage from a Blu-ray player ???

[@sinlip8247]

How about takeing a look to PIC microcontrollers. Thoes are the ones that we use in the university where i m studying in Argentina.

[@sinlip8247]

the dsp33 line have some great features

[@Brainstorm4300]

Idk how to feel about using msp with energia. I mean energia is a crappier version of arduino. Try making complex applications with ccs/iar and you'll be missing for a month digging through non-existent resources, convoluted million page long datasheets, and half baked sdks to apparently "make development easier". Want to make something quick and dirty -> arduino + atmel chips Want to learn and/or develop commercial consumer products - > IAR workbench + TI/stm chips to get started

[@nielsbeens]

Nice video, did you try to R/W directly into regs? Its much easier than the driverlib method you use in this video. And Ti’s datasheet is very good.

[@amitbhagat1356]

Congratulations for 1 million subscribe. I had watched almost all ,your video. Your video is very useful for me.

[@TheRainHarvester]

I started using Energia for msp. No debug, but Arduino ide and libraries make development faster than having debug for some projects.

[@stumpy1495]

I used CCS in my work environment a long time ago (it was based around MS Visual Studio). It was really clunky. It needs to have gotten a *lot* better to be viable as a good IDE to me. What are people's experiences?

[@GuillaumeDeplancke]

Where could we find the source for the line following program?

[@ceneblock]

Any chance of making your own multi-cell BMS instead of using a premade one? As far as a μC to review, the 8051 (AT89S51 in particular), would be a fun one to do given its history. Edit: CCS is based on Netbeans, so for Java folks might be more comfortable with it.