Designing a Buck Regulator with the MCP34063
The chip I’m going to be talking about is the MCP34063. I really like the chip because it is very cheap, which is great for learning because you will most likely burn some up, and it’s one of the older …
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Boost Regulator
This is a regulator that boosts an input voltage range of 0.9V to 1.7V up to 3.3V. It’s based on the MCP1640 which is a 500kHz switching regulator. This boost module can supply up to 100mA. It is up for …
MSP430 Power Fet Booster Pack Basic IO code
This is just a quick post going over some basic IO functionality utilizing a booster pack I designed for the launch pad. I am toggling all of the IO pins of interest for my booster pack to make sure this …
Low cost under cabinet lighting with the launchpad
This is my low cost under cabinet lighting system based around the Texas Instrument Launchpad and my PowerFet Booster Pack.
Power Feet Booster Pack
This write-up is for the power fet booster pack (PFBP) which is up for sale on the products page. It’s sold as a kit of parts which requires assembly. This video is a quick over view of the board and …
SOIC – 16 Narrow Breakout Board
This is a SOIC narrow breakout board for 16 pin and lower pin count parts. This board breaks the pins of the SOIC package out to 0.100″ (100 mil) header pins. As shown in the pictures below and described in …
Reflow Toaster Oven: Conclusion
So the project is finally done other than cleaning up the box and making it look better etc…. The big question though, is, was this project really worth it? How well does this reflow toaster actually work? This is the …
Single channel – Single Sequence ADC10 example
This is a quick write-up to show how to configure and use the MSP430’s ADC10 in single channel/single sequence mode. Lets start off with the entire section of C-code and go from there:
Interrupt driven Timer/Timing tutorial
This tutorial covers the basics of the TimerA0 capabilities including interrupt configuration. The Timer module counts clock cycles in an accumulation register called the “TAR” register. The chip I’m using (MSP430G2553) has 3x associated capture compare registers. These registers compare …
Reflow Toaster Oven Vid 8: Analog Op Amp Circuit
This section discusses the analog front end for all of my sensors. I had to do some signal conditioning which I’ll discuss in a second.