Year: 2012

  • TI MSP-EXP430G2 – Hello world

    Hi folks, as I promised to myself, I’ve started playng with MCUs. I’d like to get started with Arduino board but, the big deal with TI Stellaris Launchpad was to big. Because of I’m still waiting for the board (maybe at home for late november), I decided to buy another interesting board: the Texas Instruments…

  • And the MCU’s adventure keep on going: TI MSP430EXP-G2

    In the mean time I’l get the two couples of boards from Stellairs Launchpad, I decided to buy one MSP430-G2 board. At the very beginning it seemed to me a good idea. TI boards cost a quite a few compared to Arduino stuff and performances are better, as well. Because off my newbie in programming…

  • TI Stellaris Launchpad – my first time in programming and MCUs

    It’s all started from here from the wonderful blog of Hackaday. I follow it via twitter and every so often a really interesting news comes out. Few days ago I found a news about Texas Instruments, giving away (in preorder mode), several MCUs board: the stellaris Launchpad is the name. The price is quite outstanding:…

  • Ruote su Roma

    Come si misura il grado di civilizzazione di una città europea come Roma? Una capitale? Percorro ogni giorno circa 80 km per andare dal centro di Roma a Pomezia e tornare di nuovo al centro di Roma. Ogni giorno assisto a quello che credo sia uno spettacolo indecente! Migliaia di ruote, migliaia di gomme che…

  • Cannondale test drive

    Primo giro ufficiale su strada con la mia nuova Cannondale CAAD2. Solo a guardarla fanno male le cosce!