Energia is an open-source electronics prototyping platform started by Robert Wessels in Januari of 2012 with the goal to bring the Arduino and Wiring framework to the Texas Instruments MSP430 based LaunchPad. Energia is based on Arduino and the Wiring framework and includes and 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 beginners through 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.

Energia started out to bring the Wiring and Arduino framework to the "Wow, that's cheap for a cool little board like that" $4.30 Texas Instruments MSP430 LaunchPad. Texas Instruments offers a MSP430, Stellaris and C2000 LaunchPad. The LaunchPad is a low-cost microcontroller boards that is made by Texas Instruments. The latest release of Energia supports the MSP-EXP430G2, MSP-EXP430FR5739 and Stellaris EK-LM4F120XL LaunchPads with support for the C2000 base LAUNCHXL-F28027 LaunchPad comming soon.

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 be communicate with software running on your computer (Host PC).

More information about LaunchPad can be found on the TI site: www.ti.com/launchpad

Getting Started

To get started with Energia for your operating system (Energia is works on Mac OS X, Linux and Windows), follow the instructions in the getting started guide.

Corrections, suggestions, and new documentation should be posted to the Forum.

The text of the Energia getting started guide is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 License. Energia reference is based on Arduino reference. Code samples in the guide are released into the public domain.

Energia Source Code

Official 43oh Energia Forum

Official Stellarisiti Energia Forum

Energia GitHub Wiki

Board instructions and pin mapping:

• MSP430 LaunchPad
• MSP430 FraunchPad
• C2000 LaunchPad
• Stellaris LaunchPad
• Tiva C Series LaunchPad

BoosterPack pin mapping:

• Educational BoosterPack
• Capacitive Touch BoosterPack
• Anaren CC110L AIR BoosterPack