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Re: ROBOLAB purchase. Thinks.
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lugnet.robotics
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Thu, 6 Sep 2001 08:52:20 GMT
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Ralf Krause <{rkra@gmx.}avoidspam{de}>
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Hi Bruce,
you would need to buy Mindstorms 1.5 and Robolab 2.0.1. Because there is
only a serial SUB9 cable for the infra red communication tower and your
iBook does not have such a plugin you also need an usb to serial adapter.
Keyspan has some adapters with one, two or four serial ports.
If you want to wait some time you would get Mindstorms 2.0 that comes with
an usb tower. The problem is that Robolab 2.0 does not drive the usb tower.
You have to wait for Robolab 2.5 that will come with a mac driver for the
usb tower. Robolab 2.5 is in beta test but I don't know when you can get the
final version.
Ralf
on 2001-08-31 10:18 Uhr, Bruce M. Axtens at bruce_axtens@sil.org wrote:
> G'day. If this is the wrong place for this posting, please let me know.
>
> Just like some help with deciding things.
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> We have an iBook and would like to do ROBOLAB/MINDSTORMS. We homeschool. We
> live in Pakistan mostly though I'm writing from Perth, WA, Australia at the
> moment. We have one maybe two kids who will study this stuff (plus one
> really interested adult, me). Has anyone been down this road before who can
> recommend what to buy, what not to buy, tips, gotchas etc.
>
> Thanks,
> Bruce.
>
>
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