Microcontroller setup and familiarize with Texas Instruments launchpad/IDE

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Microcontroller setup and familiarize with Texas Instruments launchpad/IDE #48

Open Ezmeyers opened 6 years ago

Ezmeyers commented 6 years ago

I discovered that the Texas instruments IDE for the microcontroller (MCU) isn't compatible with MAC or Linux. I found Energia is an open source IDE tool that is compatible with linux/mac and our MCU unit, so I am using that. If anyone else is using mac/linux, and will be working on this as well, I would suggest energia because it seems easy to use so far.

I have not done much coding, but I have got an LED on the MCU blinking via code, so it's a start. I got delayed because of the aforementioned issues. I will be posting status updates to this issue.

Ezmeyers commented 6 years ago

I got temperature readouts from the internal sensor. RXD and TXD (read & transmit) jumpers had to be moved to a horizontal configuration to get the readouts like so:

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The temperature code (c++) I got was licensed free to use, sell and distrubute (I did not write it), but I plan to go through it so I can learn what each of the pieces are and then replication/modification for external temperature sensors should be straightforward. If we want c code for extensibility instead of c++ that can be done as well.

shbucher commented 6 years ago

@Ezmeyers Thanks, Liz. Since issues are opening for NeoWarm + mHBS integration, I think we may want to invite Prof Combs to view the Github. Thanks!