Wednesday, 24 October 2012

Lightspeed is an OpenGL program that shows what an object would look like as it travels closer and closer to the speed of light

Posted on 14:46 by Unknown

This Lightspeed App looks interesting. But, I can't try it out right now, since I don't have 3D Drivers installed on my Fedora 14 System. I'm planning on installing them soon. When I install Fedora 17...

Don

Light Speed! is an OpenGL-based program developed to illustrate the effects of special relativity on the appearance of moving objects. When an object accelerates to more than a few million meters per second, it begins to appear warped and discolored in strange and unusual ways, and as it approaches the speed of light (299,792,458 m/s) the effects become more and more bizarre. In addition, the manner in which the object is distorted varies drastically with the viewpoint from which it is observed.

These effects which come into play at relativistic velocities are:

The Lorentz contraction - causes the object to appear shorter
The Doppler red/blue shift - alters the hues of color observed
The headlight effect - brightens or darkens the object
Optical aberration - deforms the object in unusual ways

They are described in greater depth in the About page. Highlights of the simulator's capabilities are listed on the Features page.

See Light Speed! in action
(The screen shots are here!)

Requirements

To run Light Speed!, you will need:

A Unix/Linux workstation running the X Window System
A fast CPU (then again, what today doesn't require one? :-)
OpenGL or Mesa3D libraries

Light Speed! also requires the GTK+ toolkit library. (Binaries with this library compiled in statically will be made available in the future)

Go to the Download area

Go there...
http://lightspeed.sourceforge.net/

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HackRF - Transmit and Receive - A single software radio platform can be used to implement virtually any wireless technology (Bluetooth, GSM, ZigBee, etc.)

Posted on 14:20 by Unknown

Software Defined Radio's are very interesting to me. I have been watching their development for a while now and this Project looks to be a big step forward. I hope to learn more and be able to try this out for my self, soon...

Don

Introducing HackRF

I'd like to take a moment to properly introduce the project that is consuming most of my time this year: HackRF, a software radio peripheral. Software radio or Software Defined Radio (SDR) is the application of Digital Signal Processing (DSP) to radio waveforms. It is analogous to the software-based digital audio techniques that became popular a couple of decades ago. Just like a sound card in a computer digitizes audio waveforms, a software radio peripheral digitizes radio waveforms. It's like a very fast sound card with the speaker and microphone replaced by an antenna. A single software radio platform can be used to implement virtually any wireless technology (Bluetooth, GSM, ZigBee, etc.).
Digital audio capabilities in general purpose computers enabled a revolution in the sound and music industries with advances such as hard disk recording and MP3 file sharing. Today's computers are fast enough to process radio waveforms in similar ways, and the radio communications industry is going through the same sorts of changes. One critical advance has yet to take place, and that is the availability of low cost tools enabling any computer user to take part in the revolution.
HackRF project goals:

transmit and receive
operating frequency: 100 MHz to 6 GHz
maximum sample rate: 20 Msps
resolution: 8 bits
interface: High Speed USB
power supply: USB bus power
portable
open source hardware and software
low cost

There have been some exciting developments in the world of low cost software radio hardware in recent months, but the HackRF project will go much further. A key advance will be the ability to transmit as well as receive radio signals, and HackRF will also enable operation at higher frequencies, including the popular 2.4 GHz band. Most importantly, HackRF is an open source project, so people will always be able to use and modify the hardware design and software in the future. We are being very careful to only use electronic components with published documentation (no NDAs!) and to avoid software libraries without open source licenses. This means more work for us, but we think that it will be worth it in the long run.
Read More...
http://ossmann.blogspot.com/2012/06/introducing-hackrf.html

HackRF - Transmit and Receive - A single software radio platform can be used to implement virtually any wireless technology (Bluetooth, GSM, ZigBee, etc.)

Firmware Development Setup

Go there...
https://github.com/mossmann/hackrf/wiki/Firmware-Development-Setup

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Software Defined Radios and Antennas

Getting started with software defined radio - Hack a Day

Getting Started With RTL-SDR

GNU Radio - WikiStart - gnuradio.org

Getting Started With RTL-SDR

Ezcap EZTV668 DVB-T Digital TV USB 2.0 Dongle with FM/DAB/Remote Controller - Worldwide Free Shipping - DX

Budget TV Antenna : TV Antennas | RadioShack.com

Improving a software defined radio with a few bits of wire - Hack a Day

helix.air.net.au :: D.I.Y. Discone for RTLSDR

Discone antenna - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Antenna, VE3SQB Ham radio antenna design software programs and sstv,qha, amateur radio,sstv,antennas,j-pole,quad,dipole,discone,antenna program, super scanner, pdl, omni, rhcp, bazooka, coaxial dipole,skyhopper)

Gqrx SDR receiver

Degen Designs

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Tuesday, 23 October 2012

FDA: 5 Death Reports for Monster Energy Drink

Posted on 18:10 by Unknown

FDA: 5 Death Reports for Monster Energy Drink

Monster Energy Sued in Death of 14-Year-Old Girl

By Daniel J. DeNoon
WebMD Health News

Reviewed by Louise Chang, MD

Oct. 23, 2012 -- The FDA is investigating reports of five deaths and a nonfatal heart attack in people who drank high-caffeine energy drinks made by the Monster Energy Company.

Meanwhile, a Maryland couple has filed a wrongful death suit against the company, alleging that their product killed their 14-year-old daughter. They say Anais Fournier, 14, collapsed after drinking her second 24-ounce Monster Energy drink in two days. She died six days later.

The reports are not proof that the drinks caused the deaths, but merely signal there might be a problem. Even if the deaths are determined to be caused by caffeine poisoning, the FDA will consider all sources of caffeine before blaming the deaths on the energy drink.

In addition to caffeine, energy drinks contain other stimulants, including taurine and guarana, a caffeine-containing plant.

Because energy drinks are sold as nutritional supplements, they are not regulated as foods. This means they may exceed the FDA-mandated limit of 71 milligrams of caffeine for a 12-ounce soda.

"FDA continues to evaluate the emerging science on a variety of ingredients, including caffeine," FDA spokeswoman Shelly Burgess said in an email.

The reports aren't the first health warnings about energy drinks. Last year, the U.S. Drug Abuse Warning Network reported a tenfold spike in emergency-room visits involving energy drinks. In some 70% of cases involving teens ages 12 to 17, the energy-drink itself -- not drugs or alcohol -- was the main reason for going to the ER.

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http://www.webmd.com/news/20121023/death-reports-monster-energy-drink?src=RSS_PUBLIC

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Sunday, 21 October 2012

OpenOCD and Debugging the TI Stellaris LaunchPad

Posted on 11:47 by Unknown

The TI Stellaris LaunchPad Looks very interesting. With allot of possible applications, being that it is 32 bit. And OpenOCD may be a nice alternative App for us Linux users, who like working in the Command Line (I don't though)...

Here's the Command Line Output for my first run of openocd. After installation on my Fedora 14 System. There is an Error, saying "Can't find openocd.cfg". I may need to manually setup this file or it may be done on next Reboot. Not sure, but I don't want to do that now. Maybe later...

[don@RedBlackBioStarFedora14 ~]$ openocd
Open On-Chip Debugger 0.4.0 (2010-02-22-22:50)
Licensed under GNU GPL v2
For bug reports, read
        http://openocd.berlios.de/doc/doxygen/bugs.html
Can't find openocd.cfg
Error: JTAG interface has to be specified, see "interface" command
Command handler execution failed
[don@RedBlackBioStarFedora14 ~]$ help
GNU bash, version 4.1.7(1)-release (i386-redhat-linux-gnu)
These shell commands are defined internally. Type `help' to see this list.
Type `help name' to find out more about the function `name'.
Use `info bash' to find out more about the shell in general.
Use `man -k' or `info' to find out more about commands not in this list.

A star (*) next to a name means that the command is disabled.

job_spec [&]                                                                                   history [-c] [-d offset] [n] or history -anrw [filename] or history -ps arg [arg...]
(( expression ))                                                                               if COMMANDS; then COMMANDS; [ elif COMMANDS; then COMMANDS; ]... [ else COMMANDS; ] fi
. filename [arguments]                                                                         jobs [-lnprs] [jobspec ...] or jobs -x command [args]
:                                                                                              kill [-s sigspec | -n signum | -sigspec] pid | jobspec ... or kill -l [sigspec]
[ arg... ]                                                                                     let arg [arg ...]
[[ expression ]]                                                                               local [option] name[=value] ...
alias [-p] [name[=value] ... ]                                                                 logout [n]
bg [job_spec ...]                                                                              mapfile [-n count] [-O origin] [-s count] [-t] [-u fd] [-C callback] [-c quantum] [array]
bind [-lpvsPVS] [-m keymap] [-f filename] [-q name] [-u name] [-r keyseq] [-x keyseq:shell-c> popd [-n] [+N | -N]
break [n]                                                                                      printf [-v var] format [arguments]
builtin [shell-builtin [arg ...]]                                                              pushd [-n] [+N | -N | dir]
caller [expr]                                                                                  pwd [-LP]
case WORD in [PATTERN [| PATTERN]...) COMMANDS ;;]... esac                                     read [-ers] [-a array] [-d delim] [-i text] [-n nchars] [-N nchars] [-p prompt] [-t timeout>
cd [-L|-P] [dir]                                                                               readarray [-n count] [-O origin] [-s count] [-t] [-u fd] [-C callback] [-c quantum] [array]>
command [-pVv] command [arg ...]                                                               readonly [-af] [name[=value] ...] or readonly -p
compgen [-abcdefgjksuv] [-o option] [-A action] [-G globpat] [-W wordlist] [-F function] [> return [n]
complete [-abcdefgjksuv] [-pr] [-DE] [-o option] [-A action] [-G globpat] [-W wordlist] [-F> select NAME [in WORDS ... ;] do COMMANDS; done
compopt [-o|+o option] [-DE] [name ...]                                                        set [--abefhkmnptuvxBCHP] [-o option-name] [arg ...]
continue [n]                                                                                   shift [n]
coproc [NAME] command [redirections]                                                           shopt [-pqsu] [-o] [optname ...]
declare [-aAfFilrtux] [-p] [name[=value] ...]                                                  source filename [arguments]
dirs [-clpv] [+N] [-N]                                                                         suspend [-f]
disown [-h] [-ar] [jobspec ...]                                                                test [expr]
echo [-neE] [arg ...]                                                                          time [-p] pipeline
enable [-a] [-dnps] [-f filename] [name ...]                                                   times
eval [arg ...]                                                                                 trap [-lp] [[arg] signal_spec ...]
exec [-cl] [-a name] [command [arguments ...]] [redirection ...]                               true
exit [n]                                                                                       type [-afptP] name [name ...]
export [-fn] [name[=value] ...] or export -p                                                   typeset [-aAfFilrtux] [-p] name[=value] ...
false                                                                                          ulimit [-SHacdefilmnpqrstuvx] [limit]
fc [-e ename] [-lnr] [first] [last] or fc -s [pat=rep] [command]                               umask [-p] [-S] [mode]
fg [job_spec]                                                                                  unalias [-a] name [name ...]
for NAME [in WORDS ... ] ; do COMMANDS; done                                                   unset [-f] [-v] [name ...]
for (( exp1; exp2; exp3 )); do COMMANDS; done                                                  until COMMANDS; do COMMANDS; done
function name { COMMANDS ; } or name () { COMMANDS ; }                                         variables - Names and meanings of some shell variables
getopts optstring name [arg]                                                                   wait [id]
hash [-lr] [-p pathname] [-dt] [name ...]                                                      while COMMANDS; do COMMANDS; done
help [-dms] [pattern ...]                                                                      { COMMANDS ; }
[don@RedBlackBioStarFedora14 ~]$

Don

About « Open On-Chip Debugger

OpenOCD, the Open On-Chip Debugger has been created by Dominic Rath as part of a diploma thesis at the University of Applied Sciences, FH-Augsburg. For other material presented on this site, see the respective notes of authorship.

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http://openocd.sourceforge.net/about/

OpenOCD 0.6.1 bugfix release

October 7th, 2012

Today OpenOCD 0.6.1 bugfix release was published on project’s download area on SourceForge. Appropriate changes were also committed to GIT repository.

This release addresses serious regression in 0.6.0 and 0.6.0-rc2 releases which caused some functionalities to work correctly only on the first run – all following operations would fail until OpenOCD would be restarted. Some of affected modules:

Stellaris® ARM® Cortex™-M Microcontrollers

Stellaris® ARM® Cortex™-M microcontrollers offer embedded MCU designers the option of obtaining 32-bit performance for the same price as their current 8- and 16- bit microcontroller designs. Designers who migrate to Stellaris benefit from great tools, small code footprint, and outstanding performance.

In addition, microcontroller applications built on the Stellaris family have access to the ARM ecosystem of silicon, development tools, support, and software, and a breadth of instruction-set compatible performance options that exist only in the ARM architectural community.

The Stellaris family offers the industry's first and broadest implementation of Cortex-M and the Thumb-2 instruction set. This technology combines both 16-bit and 32-bit instructions to deliver the optimal balance of code density and performance. Thumb-2 uses 26% less memory than pure 32-bit code to reduce overall system cost while delivering improved, better performance.

Go there...
http://www.ti.com/lsds/ti/microcontroller/arm_stellaris/overview.page?DCMP=Luminary&HQS=Other+OT+stellaris

Stellaris® Flash Programmer, GUI and command line

Description

LM Flash Programmer is a free flash programming utility intended to be used with Texas Instruments Stellaris microcontrollers, development boards, or evaluation boards.

Get software updates

Features

LM Flash Programmer is also compatible with a Stellaris microcontroller custom board if the board has a serial (UART) interface, Ethernet interface, USB interface, or a standard JTAG connector. For the JTAG connector, a Stellaris evaluation board can be used as an In-Circuit Debug Interface.

Go there...
http://www.ti.com/tool/lmflashprogrammer

Stellaris® ICDI Drivers

Description

Stellaris® evaluation and reference design kits provide an integrated Stellaris® In-Circuit Debug Interface (ICDI) which allows programming and debugging of the onboard LM4F microcontroller. The Stellaris ICDI can be used with the Stellaris LM Flash Programmer as well as any of the Stellaris-supported toolchains such as Texas Instruments’ Code Composer Studio. Both JTAG and Serial Wire Debug (SWD) are also supported. To use the Stellaris ICDI, follow the instructions in the Quick Start document (literature number SPMU287) on this page to install the appropriate drivers on the host computer.

Technical Documents

Read More...
http://www.ti.co/tool/stellaris_icdi_drivers#&lid=en_US_folder_ts_top_anchor_support_community

OpenOCD and Debugging the TI Stellaris LaunchPad: Debugging the Stellaris with OpenOCD - Hack a Day; Can I debug the stellaris launchpad via gcc/gdb? - General - Stellaris Arm Community Forums; Stellaris® ICDI Drivers - STELLARIS_ICDI_DRIVERS - TI Software Folder; spmu287.pdf (application/pdf Object); Stellaris® Flash Programmer, GUI and command line - LMFLASHPROGRAMMER - TI Software Folder; Open On-Chip Debugger; Can I debug the stellaris launchpad via gcc/gdb? - General - Stellaris Arm Community Forums; utzig/lm4tools · GitHub; Stellaris ARM Cortex-M | ARM Microcontroller | ARM MCU; OpenOCD - Open On-Chip Debugger - Browse /openocd/0.6.1 at SourceForge.net; About « Open On-Chip Debugger; Quick Datasheets from Texas Instruments

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Behind the lens: Shooting the Endeavour time-lapse video - Framework - Photos and Video - Visual Storytelling from the Los Angeles Times

Posted on 11:07 by Unknown

Here's a Great Time Laps Video and the Story of the Space Shuttle Endeavour being moved to it's final Home...

Don

Behind the lens: Shooting the Endeavour time-lapse video

Posted By: Bryan Chan
Posted On: 2:35 p.m. | October 18, 2012

By Bryan Chan, Los Angeles Times

In Los Angeles it might be said that we’ve seen it all. In February we saw a 340-ton boulder hauled 105 miles over two weeks to an art museum.

But a space shuttle moving through city streets was going to be unique.

Go there and See Video...
http://framework.latimes.com/2012/10/18/behind-the-lens-shooting-the-endeavour-time-lapse-video/

Time-lapse video: Space shuttle Endeavour's trek across L.A.

Teenager's identity lies on both sides of the border

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Saturday, 20 October 2012

Beginners View of the TI 430Boost-CC110L AIR Module BoosterPack Kit

Posted on 18:10 by Unknown

Texas Instruments 430Boost-CC110L BoosterPack featuring Anaren Integrated Radio (AIR) modules

I was chosen by Element14.com to Receive, Try Out, Test and Review a free TI 430Boost-CC110L AIR Module BoosterPack kit. The kit comes with two 430Boost Boards and two CC110L AIR Modules. This is a Wireless Kit and could be used for quit a few different and interesting Projects. They call these Road Tests. This is my second TI MSP430 Kit that I have been allowed to review. The first was the TI Fram MSP-EXP430FR5739 Experimenter Board. I really enjoyed and learned allot about the MSP430, during my first test and review. If you like, you can read my first Article here, Beginners Guide to The TI MSP-EXP430FR5739 Experimenter Board. I thought that this review of the 430Boost, would go rather quickly and be allot easier than the first, because of all that I had learned with the MSP-EXP430FR5739. But, Boy was I Wrong!:O I found out just how little I know about installing Embedded Software on an IC Ship, with IDE Software. I have been wanting to learn how to do this. Ever since I tested the MSP-EXP430FR5739. I want to be able to install custom code and build my own projects, one day. I did a bunch of reading, before on IDE Software and realized that there would be a learning curve for me. But, what I didn't expect. Was Software that doesn't work as you wold expect. I have been running Fedora Linux as my main OS, since 2005. So, the newest Windows System that I have, is running WinXP. And since I learned the last time that almost all of the Software that TI makes available to use to work with their Boards is Windows Software. I started out on my old WinXP Machine. I installed IAR, one of the IDE Software's Provided. I could not install Code Composer Studio (CCS) on my System. Since it requires 1GB of Ram and I currently only have 512MB of Ram on that System (one Ram Module died recently). I also installed AIR Booster Stack Lite. Which reads the info from the 430Boost-CC110L AIR Module. I followed the instructions in the Quick Start Guide and the Manual too (after things didn't go as planned). To make a long story a bit shorter. The AIR Booster Stack Light Software just can't See my 430Boost-CC110L AIR Modules. The first problem that I noticed. Right after installing the 430Boost-CC110L AIR Module Drivers. Was an Error Saying something about the new driver not working right. This happens sometimes in Windows, even thought things are fine. So, I want ahead and Plugged in one the 430Boost-CC110L AIR Modules and started to go through the Setup Instructions. But, no go. I spent two 4-6 hour sessions trying to figure this problem out. I updated and uninstalled and reinstalled the drivers. I thought that maybe since my MSP-EXP430FR5739 driver was still on the system, that it might have caused a conflict. So, I uninstalled that driver and reinstalled the driver for the 430Boost-CC110L AIR Module. Still no help... So, I did a bunch of searching in the Manuals. But, found nothing that make them work. I keep a watch on the e-mail notices from Element14 and I saw some about the 430Boost-CC110L AIR Module, not coming with the Software Pre-installed on the 430Boost-CC110L AIR Module BoosterPack kit Quick Start Guide and Manuals. Its on the Road Test Page (http://www.element14.com/community/roadTests/1102?z=R2i739) and here too (http://www.element14.com/community/roadTests/1102#comment-16776). And there are links to this very helpful info on using the IDE - CCS to install the Software Using CCS 5 to Compile and Load example program for MSP430 + Air Booster Pack Posted by David Cotterill-Drew on Sept 28, 2012 3:18:18 PM. I wold have been completely stuck here, if it weren't for Davids great Guide on the CCS. Thanks David!:) I couldn't use CCS in my Windows System, because of the lack of Memory. But, I already had CCS installed on my Fedora 14 Linux System, from my last testing of the MSP-EXP430FR5739. I had not been able to figure out how it use CCS on my own. But, now I had a nice guide to get me started on importing the 430Boost-CC110L AIR Module Code and installing it too. It took me a while, but I got everything imported and setup. Then came the Errors. Some about Java Code and some about Missing things in the Code. I kept trying on and off for several days. But never got any where with CCS. Finally And since I much prefer working on a Linux System to a Window System. I did some searching in App Manager and Google and found two nice IDE's that are Free and Open Source for Fedora Linux (Anjuta and Eclipse). They both are very nice Programs and I was able to import the 430Boost-CC110L AIR Module Code int both of them. But, still I was not able to Debug and Install it on my 430Boost-CC110L AIR Module. Then today, I got back on both my Fedora and my WinXP Systems and tried everything one last time before writing this Review. I was able to install IAR Embed Workbench IDE Software from the CD that came with the CC110l Air Modules (which I also had already download from the Element14 Road Test Page for TI 430Boost-CC110L AIR Module BoosterPack Kit. But, this Software is limited in Byte Code Size that is allowable to use. It's basically Demo Only Software. So, it was no use at all and a complete wast of time. So, far I'm calling this a Great Learning Experience;) But, I still plan on doing some more reading on these IDE Apps and see if I can learn how to use them. But, I ran out of time and need to Post my Review on Element14. So, this is going to continue at later date. After I have learned more about how to work in the IDE Software. I was and am still really very interested in learning about all of the different Wireless Projects, that the TI 430Boost-CC110L AIR Module BoosterPack Kit can be used for. And I want to thank TI and Element14 for giving me these kits and allowing me to Test and Review them. I really appreciate it allot!:) But, so far, as it stands today and as my TI 430Boost-CC110L AIR Module BoosterPack Kit came to me. I would not recommend it, as a Beginners Kit. Not for Beginners, with no Programming Experience like me, anyway...
Don
The Pics in this Article are of the Boards and Screen Shots of the various Software Applications and the Errors that I got while trying to setup the Boards for Testing. And below are links to more info, software and manuals for the, TI 430Boost-CC110L AIR Module BoosterPack Kit.

TI MSP-430 Texas Instruments 430Boost-CC110L BoosterPack featuring Anaren Integrated Radio (AIR) modules: Texas Instruments 430Boost-CC110L BoosterPack featuring Anaren Integrated Radio (AIR) modules - element14; AIR-BoosterPack_Quick_Start_Guide.pdf (application/pdf Object); BoosterPack_Users_Manual.pdf (application/pdf Object); MSP-EXP430G2 - MSP430 LaunchPad Value Line Development kit; 111213b_ A110LR09A_Prod Brief.pdf (application/pdf Object); 111031 - A110LR09x_Users_Manual_V11.pdf (application/pdf Object); BoosterStack_Programmers_Guide.pdf (application/pdf Object); AIRFrameworkOverview.pdf (application/pdf Object); Rich text editor, CommentHeaderMessage, press ALT 0 for help.; Code Composer Studio (CCStudio) Integrated Development Environment (IDE) v5 - CCSTUDIO - TI Tool Folder; Launch Pad Powered Robot - LaunchPad Microcontroller Projects - MCU LaunchPad - TI E2E Community; Group: C2000 - element14; MSP430 Microcontrollers: Using CCS 5 to Compile and Load example program for MSP430 + Air Booster Pack - element14; Texas Instruments 430Boost-CC110L BoosterPack featuring Anaren Integrated Radio (AIR) modules - element14; Group: Stellaris Microcontrollers - element14; Group: MSP430 Microcontrollers - element14; MCU LaunchPad Evaluation Platform | Microcontroller Kit from Texas Instruments for MSP430™ , C2000™ real-time and Stellaris® ARM® Cortex™ microcontrollers; MSP430 LaunchPad - Texas Instruments Embedded Processors Wiki; Debug.jpg (JPEG Image, 1366 × 768 pixels); msp430.jpg (JPEG Image, 1366 × 768 pixels); TI - my.TI Account - Account Login; Texas Instruments 430Boost-CC110L BoosterPack featuring Anaren Integrated Radio (AIR) modules - element14; Untitled.png (PNG Image, 1366 × 768 pixels); TI Software Approval - TI.com; screen.jpg (JPEG Image, 1280 × 800 pixels); ImageShack Album - 18 images; ImageShack Album - 16 images; ImageShack Album - 7 images; CC110L RF BoosterPack - 430BOOST-CC110L - TI Tool Folder; MSP430 LaunchPad Value Line Development kit - MSP-EXP430G2 - TI Tool Folder; Review of Texas Instruments 430Boost-CC110L BoosterPack featuring Anaren Integrated Radio (AIR) modules - element14; Texas Instruments 430Boost-CC110L BoosterPack featuring Anaren Integrated Radio (AIR) modules - element14; CC110L AIR Module BoosterPack Embedded Antenna Module by Anaren; TI MSP-430 Texas Instruments 430Boost-CC110L BoosterPack featuring Anaren Integrated Radio (AIR) modules not recognized in Air - Google Search

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