Project Blinkenlights is a RGB LED strip controller. This repository includes its hardware and firmware.

Copyright (C) 2012 Johann Glaser <Johann.Glaser@gmx.at>

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA.

The repository includes several datasheets. Their copyright belongs to their respective owners and are only replicated here for easier access.

The name Project Blinkenlights is used by numerous other organizations, products and initiatives. This RGB LED strip controller does not have to do anything with them. No rights on the name are requested.

Project Blinkenlights is developed for German speaking users. Therefore its user interface and its user manual use the German language. Nevertheless, all firmware source files and all hardware design files are written in English.

doc/

Documentation

eagle/

Hardware design files

datasheets/

Datasheets of the components used in the hardware design

workspace/

Eclipse workspace with numerous testing projects

workspace/PrjBlinkenlights/

The main Eclipse project with the full firmware

The hardware of Project Blinkenlights uses a TI LaunchPad MSP-EXP430 Rev. 1.5. A custom BoosterPack (see its design files) provides the facilities to control the device, switch the LEDs, and hold an LCD display.

The LaunchPad holds an MSP430G2553 microcontroller.

The MSP430 microcontroller is programmed using msp430-gcc and mspdebug. For details on the tool installation in Debian GNU/Linux see my blog post.

An Eclipse workspace was created and used seamlessly with these tools for compiling and debugging. More details to follow.

• Firmware: update documentation in main.c
• BoosterPack: change layer of wires to the LaunchPad connectors from bottom to top
• Documentation: how to use Eclipse with MSP430
• Documentation: design decisions, ideas, ... (see Zim)