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| author | Erwin van Zanten <e.van.zanten.evz@gmail.com> | 2014-10-04 23:38:22 +0700 |
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| committer | Willy Sudiarto Raharjo <willysr@slackbuilds.org> | 2014-10-04 23:38:45 +0700 |
| commit | d3929fccfb139f4d7c5fe6d0c73ef376d22a11f2 (patch) | |
| tree | 62b20fba6fc22e3855e9ee132894281aba909fba /development/energia/README | |
| parent | 579b34f9e01490daf22455f3ccc2525f8655a550 (diff) | |
development/energia: Added (IDE).
Signed-off-by: Willy Sudiarto Raharjo <willysr@slackbuilds.org>
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diff --git a/development/energia/README b/development/energia/README new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000..d2258d90151b9 --- /dev/null +++ b/development/energia/README @@ -0,0 +1,23 @@ +Energia is an open-source electronics prototyping platform started by Robert Wessels in +January of 2012 with the goal to bring the Wiring and Arduino framework to the Texas +Instruments MSP430 based LaunchPad. + +The Energia IDE is cross platform and supported on Mac OS, Windows, and Linux. +Energia uses the mspgcc compiler by Peter Bigot and is based on the Wiring and Arduino framework. +Energia includes an integrated development environment (IDE) that is based on Processing. + +The foundation of Energia and Arduino is the Wiring framework that is developed by Hernando Barragan. +The framework is thoughtfully created with designers and artists in mind to encourage a community +where both beginners and experts from around the world share ideas, knowledge and their collective experience. +The Energia team adopts the philosophy of learning by doing and strives to make it easy to work directly with the hardware. +Professional engineers, entrepreneurs, makers, and students can all benefit from the ease of use Energia brings to the microcontroller. + +Energia started out to bring the Wiring and Arduino framework to the Texas Instruments MSP430 LaunchPad. +Texas Instruments offers a MSP430, TM4C, C2000, and CC3200 LaunchPad. +The LaunchPad is a low-cost microcontroller board that is made by Texas Instruments. +The latest release of Energia supports the majority of the LaunchPad product offerings. + +Together with Energia, LaunchPad can be used to develop interactive objects, taking inputs from a variety of +switches or sensors, and controlling a variety of lights, motors, and other physical outputs. +LaunchPad projects can be stand-alone (only run on the Target Board, i.e. your LaunchPad), or they can communicate +with software running on your computer (Host PC). |