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Hacking a Dell power adapter final (not really)

“With this project, you power adapter will be reporting false information which may not match the original design. This may cause severe results such as file or damaging your laptop. Do it on your own risk!!! As I mentioned in …

RS485 Communication Using MAX485 and MSP430 Launchpad

“Here we are going to interface a MSP430 Launchpad with a RS485 transceiver chip like MAX485 and communicate with an x86 PC. Serial(TTL) or RS232 protocol is fine if you are planning to communicate over short distances of a …

Datalogging Accelerometer Data To An SDCard

“MindForge put together an EMG logger to study and track his dad’s Parkinsons disease. He moved away from it as it was not impractical to wear EMG electrodes all day. However, the project was a good base to build …

Make Your Own MSP430 Launchpad based Robot

“This tutorial serves as a short introduction to Robotics using MSP430 microcontroller and Launchpad development board from TI.Here we will build a small differential powered robot from scratch using MSP430G2553 controller and L293D motor control chip.”