Energia - an Arduino IDE Clone for the MSP Launchpad

[joseph.anand]

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 late  so 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.

[joseph.anand]

Here's the link: http://energia.github.com/Energia/

[PedroDiogo]

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.

[joseph.anand]

The only thing I am aware of is that you need to install the launchpad drivers before using Energia.

[westfw]

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.

[cwalex]

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.

I 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-Started

It 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.

[PedroDiogo]

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.

I 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-Started

It 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.

That 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.