Saturday, October 30, 2010

MSP430F2012 (ez430 usb stick target board) to breadboard

In between accepting delivery of a ez430 USB stick programmer and when my Launchpad boards come (if ever) I decided to cook up a slot-in method for using the F2012 target boards.
 No fewer than 26 right-angled SIL header pins were used. Though I could have gotten away with 24 had I not connected the SPW pins.
 Hopefully this minimises the overhang from the target board.
It's turning out to be a lot more effort than Arduino but the marginal cost is a lot smaller, given that there are free samples of the microcontroller itself. I'll have to cook up another board to program the 14-pin dual inline packaged versions though.

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