I took a look at capacitive touch sensing on the MSP430 in 2011 and it was a little… lacking. I had another project come up and had a chance to play around with it again a couple months ago. It\’s nice to see the changes two years have made to the framework provided by TI.
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Editing PIC .hex files
… or how to edit a .hex file instead of recompiling it for every option.
I had a product a while back where the customer needed to program it, but we didn\’t want them to have to hassle with compiling it for every (10,000+) permutation. I had a whole build system set up when this was just a few hundred files that would do all the compilations for me (thank you python!). That was now out of the question. There were a few hurdles to do this on a PIC, but we achieved itContinue reading