If you have ever wanted to learn to solder but never gotten around to it then you no longer have an excuse. There are several awesome illustrated guides that make the entire process of soldering SMD and Through Hole parts completely painless. Below are the links to the original documents. Surface Mount Soldering Manga guide
When you want to create a PCB every device will need a symbol and a package layout. You could create a new one for every part you need, or you could use existing part libraries developed by people with far more skill who’ve been doing this for quite a good bit longer and save yourself
By now you know StellarisWare is gone, and TivaWare has replaced it. For the most part it is a name change, but there are a few things you should know before you upgrade. TivaWare is a rebranding, but it is also an upgrade. Aside from the obvious name changes of the chips (so previous lm4fxxx.h/.c
There’s a new kid on the block, the Tiva LaunchPad TM4C123GXL. It essentially a superset of the Stellaris LaunchPad LM4F120XL. It has all the same functionality, plus PWM, QEI, and USB Host/OTG. All of your old StellarisWare code can run on this board, though there is a new TivaWare library for this board. In effect
What was once Stellaris is now Tiva C-Series (the C stands for “Connected”). In effect Stellaris->Tiva C-Series, StellarisWare->TivaWare.The old LM4Fxxx part numbers become TM4Cyyy, same chip, new name. The effect on your software is you will need to update the old Stellarisware C89 types to the new TivaWare C99 Types. There is a whole new
The question should not be “What does it do?” but rather “What can it do?”. On its own the Stellaris launchpad doesn’t do anything, except of course blink an LED out of the box. The Launchpad is a place to start that gives you the ability to interface the physical and digital worlds by controlling
When writing code for the Stellaris Launchpad you have two main choices in how you write the code. You can either manipulate control & data registers bit by bit with the Direct Register Access Model. Or you can use a defined set of API’s with a set of predefined options to abstract away the hardware
The LM4F Stellaris Launchpad has a built in ICDI (In Circuit Debug Interface) which means you can program it out of the box with a USB cable and nothing more. In addition, just like the LM3S Dev Kits of yore, it has JTAG breakout pins in a convenient .1″ header size that enable both the
When working with the Stellaris Launchpad it can get confusing which functions are available on which pins. Thus the awesome people over at Energia put together these pinout infographics (https://github.com/energia/Energia/wiki/Hardware). The link also has pinouts for the MSP430 Launchpads. Enjoy! Top Bottom
What is Energia you may ask, well my friend, Energia is a third party app that lets you run Arduino code on a Stellaris Launchpad. It enables you to write code in the most widely known language among the DIY community on a board that is 4 times faster (80Mhz)and 1/3 the cost (13$) of
