My new Development Board : MSP-EXP430FR5739

Hi everybody,

I just got back home from Sakarya. One of the reasons i came back to Istanbul this weekend was a delivery received from Farnell. It was the MSP-EXP430FR5739 Experimenter Board :) . As soon as i came home , i reach the shipment box and opened it. I was already very excited about this board whole week. This development board is going to be a complete new journey for me after my long journey with the Arduinos… anyway enough with the chit chat :)

Lets get into some detail… Why i choosed this board?
You might have already noticed my interest in motion-controlled apps & technologies. It was first started with the Nokia Symbian smartphones with built-in accelerometers.I developed two apps for those devices one called AlertMe and the other was nGUN. I also developed some experimental apps too which are not released for public use. I kept experimenting with accelerometers on my N95 with Python s60 on the go. It is fun and very entertaining to play with accelerometers.

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Gravitan – Entertainment App. for Android

Hi my fellow readers,

I’ve been studying on android application development last week.As i was familiar with OpenGL and it’s port for Embedded Systems which is GLES ,i choosed to study on that part first.
I’m planning to make 2D Slingshot based game for Android.So i made a simple demo. to implement main, fundemental structure of the software that is going to be required to build-up a Slingshot game.

How it works:
You can add new circular masses by dragging white circle below the blue line.
As you drag, There you will see a white line appearing , which signifies the launch speed of the mass that will be created as you stop tapping.
I named it Gravitan but it’s simply the predecessor of the upcoming slingshot game. :) here are some screenshots :)

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Please report any bug you discover :)

Self-Balancing Robot First Step:The Interaction

Here is the first step in making of Self Balancing Robot. In this step i worked on Bluetooth & Serial Communication.
Communication scheme:
N95 (Bluetooth)—> PC —–( Serial)—-> Arduino
I used the same motor driver shield which i already made back in Narduino Project.
If you havent heard about Narduino Shield and its simple design done on veroboard click here to see it and its circuit diagram.
After the Narduino shield properly connected to motor wires and the supply connection ,  it is time to talk about coding…
Here below , i shared all the codes used in the project.
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Narduino & IR-Liqard Appearance on Make:Blog

Hi fellows,
It’s been quite a while since these projects first appeared on Make:Blog but i didnt share those on my blog.So i decided to have them on my blog. :)

IR-Liqard : click here for the article

Narduino : click here for the article