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Hardware
We will obviously need a MSP430 Launchpad board. For this tutorial, I used MSP-EXP430G2 Launchpad
board with MSP430G2553 and MSP430G2452 microcontrollers.
Apart from the Launchpad board, we will need basic tools like a digital multimeter (DMM), wires or
jumper cables, a power bank and other stuffs typically available in an Arduino starter kit like the
RIASpire one shown below.
An additional external or off board programmer/debugger is not needed since MSP430 Launchpad
boards come with on board Spy-Bi-Wire (SBW) programming/debugging interface. This interface