[Robotgroup] Basic Stamp Success

[Andre Lamothe]

Parallels and the other emulators are work pretty well, but when it comes to 
tight timing issues and serial communications there are always issues. A 
standard USB-to-serial convertor has trouble on PCs in general, so you might 
have to try a couple. But, it will work, you just have to get lucky or work 
at a little. I had to buy 3 different USB to serial converters just to get 
it to work on my PC in Windows. The converters many times are not "true 
converters".

The parallax tool chains don't have very robust serial port control, so what 
happens sometimes is the OS puts a com port at one place, then the IDEs 
think its at another etc. and you get into the moving serial port dilema, 
this is amplified with usb to serial convertors.

But, bottom line is it "should" work.

Andre'

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Robert Carter" <rcarter at ischool.utexas.edu>
To: "The Robot Group Mailing List" <robotgroup at puremagic.com>
Sent: Friday, January 18, 2008 3:20 PM
Subject: Re: [Robotgroup] Basic Stamp Success



On Jan 18, 2008, at 9:36 AM, LHudson wrote:

>  I had to buy a second one because I trashed the first one due to
> my lack of soldering ability, which is why I thought the video last
> night was awesome but also sort of hilarious.

Sounds like I missed a cool video last night-- is it something I
could find online?

One other BS2 related question: I've got a MacBook running Windows XP
Pro (via Parallels Desktop), and it doesn't have any serial cable
port, which is what my Homework Board requires. But Parallax sells a
USB-to-serial converter, which may solve my problems. Does anyone
have experience with this? Is there any reason why the Mac-running-
Windows environment would cause problems?

Thanks-- R

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Robert Carter
Visual Resources Collection
School of Architecture
The University of Texas at Austin
rcarter at ischool.utexas.edu



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