Getting Started with the MSP430 Launchpad (Paperback)

This book explores the world of microcontroller development through friendly lessons and progressively challenging projects, which will have you blink LEDs, make music with buzzers & interact with different sensors like accelerometers and temperature sensors. This book is focused on the MSP-EXP430G2 LaunchPad Evaluation Kit, which is a complete microcontroller development platform that includes everything you need to start creating microcontroller-based projects. Many of the 25+ projects will also leverage external components, such as the highly-integrated Educational BoosterPack, which is a modular extension to the LaunchPad and includes many components such as an RGB LED, character LCD & potentiometer.

This book provides helpful guides that break down hardware circuits through visual diagrams and includes fully-commented code examples. Concepts are broken down and explained in an easy to follow language and analogies to help you understand the principles behind each project/system. The projects will encourage you to use and even combine the fundamental concepts to develop your ideas in creating new microcontroller solutions.

Coverage includes:

• Digital Input/Output: buttons, LEDs, turning anything into a button
• Analog Input/Output: sensors, temperature, accelerometer, potentiometer, etc.
• Programming fundamentals: conditional branches & loops, flow, logic, number systems
• Pulse-Width Modulation (PWM): square wave, buzzer, analog signal simulation
• Serial Communication: UART, SPI & I2C
• Code development using Energia, a free, open-source code editor and compiler
• Debugging through serial communication with a computer
• Interfacing with external components such as LEDs, buzzers, potentiometers, sensors & more.

With the help of this book, you will be challenged to think about developing your own unique microcontroller-based application, and you will be equipped to start solving various problems, adding intelligence to existing products, or even developing your own innovative creations with a LaunchPad development kit.

• Includes over 25 projects which focuses on a learn by doing approach
• Contains easy to follow diagrams and code examples
• Covers Programming fundamentals, such as conditional branches and loops, flow, logic, number systems

本書通過友好的教學和逐漸具有挑戰性的項目，探索了微控制器開發的世界。這些項目將讓您閃爍LED燈，用蜂鳴器演奏音樂，並與加速度計和溫度傳感器等不同傳感器進行互動。本書專注於MSP-EXP430G2 LaunchPad評估套件，該套件是一個完整的微控制器開發平台，包含了開始創建基於微控制器的項目所需的一切。其中的25多個項目還將利用外部組件，例如高度集成的教育增強套件，它是LaunchPad的模塊擴展，包括許多組件，如RGB LED、字符LCD和電位器。

本書提供了有助於通過視覺圖表分解硬件電路的指南，並包含了完全註釋的代碼示例。概念被分解並以易於理解的語言和類比方式解釋，以幫助您理解每個項目/系統背後的原理。這些項目將鼓勵您使用甚至結合基本概念來開發您的想法，創建新的微控制器解決方案。

內容包括：
- 數字輸入/輸出：按鈕、LED燈，將任何東西變成按鈕
- 模擬輸入/輸出：傳感器、溫度、加速度計、電位器等
- 編程基礎知識：條件分支和循環、流程、邏輯、數字系統
- 脈寬調變（PWM）：方波、蜂鳴器、模擬信號模擬
- 串行通信：UART、SPI和I2C
- 使用Energia進行代碼開發，Energia是一個免費的開源代碼編輯器和編譯器
- 通過與計算機的串行通信進行調試
- 與LED燈、蜂鳴器、電位器、傳感器等外部組件進行接口連接。

通過本書的幫助，您將被挑戰思考開發自己獨特的基於微控制器的應用，並且您將具備使用LaunchPad開發套件開始解決各種問題、為現有產品增加智能，甚至開發自己的創新作品的能力。

- 包含超過25個項目，重點是通過實踐學習
- 包含易於理解的圖表和代碼示例
- 包括編程基礎知識，如條件分支和循環、流程、邏輯、數字系統。