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Posted by Gordon McComb on April 26, 2006, 6:35 pm
rockstar wrote:
> I bought myself a BOE-Bot to start learning about microprocessor
> programming, etc. However, the serial one looks to be going extinct,
> so to hurry on shipping I bought a USB version. Now that it's hear,
> I've assembled a large part of it, and I find out that there seems to
> be not linux support for the USB version. I don't have a serial port
> on my laptop (although the new dev box I'm creating just for stuff like
> this does...) so buying a USB-Serial Adaptor isn't really an option.
> Blah! Does anyone know of a good reference to take a look at to find a
> solution. I want my robot!
You'll probably want to ask this pon the Parallax forum:
http://forums.parallax.com/forums/search.aspx .
The BOE-Bot just uses the USB version of the Board of Education dev kit,
so perhaps someone has a solution they've already created. The forum has
a search feature...just be sure to go back at least a year to gfet the
relevent posts, if any.
-- Gordon
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> programming, etc. However, the serial one looks to be going extinct,
> so to hurry on shipping I bought a USB version. Now that it's hear,
> I've assembled a large part of it, and I find out that there seems to
> be not linux support for the USB version. I don't have a serial port
> on my laptop (although the new dev box I'm creating just for stuff like
> this does...) so buying a USB-Serial Adaptor isn't really an option.
> Blah! Does anyone know of a good reference to take a look at to find a
> solution. I want my robot!