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Re: NXT Bluetooth on Intel Based Macs
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lugnet.robotics
Date: 
Tue, 19 Sep 2006 17:32:22 GMT
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olympionex <pionex@&spamless&gmail.com>
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I have unable to get bluetooth working even under windows running natively on
an intel mac.  When the autorun started on the lego driver / software disk,
it reported that bluetooth would not work on this computer.  I setup the
pairing manually and tried to access the nxt brick in both nxt-g and robotc.
Any clue why this setup should not work?


Tony Buser-2 wrote:

In lugnet.robotics, Dick Swan wrote:
Has anyone got their NXT to work on one of the "new" Intel based Mac
systems using the OSX operating system?

Out of the box, I've heard NXT-G only supports USB connections on
Intel Macs. But through standard OSX functionality you're able to set
up a bluetooth pairing relationship without using NXT-G. I've heard a
rumor that if you first et up the BT pairing relationship via OSX,
then you can get NXT-G (and Robolab) to work on a Intel Mac..
Unfortunately, my teacher friend -- with a classroom of Intel Macs --
has not been able to get this to work.

Unfortunately no.  NXT-G is currently a PPC app so it has to run under
rosetta.
Bluetooth is unavailable to apps running under rosetta.  You can connect
to it
via bluetooth outside of NXT-G though if you write a program to
communicate with
it directly.

I was at the Second Life Big Robot on Campus event and asked them when/if
they
will be releasing a Universal binary of NXT-G.  They said "sometime later
this
year".  So who knows.



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  Re: NXT Bluetooth on Intel Based Macs
 
(...) I haven't tried it using windows on an intel mac (I have a MacBookPro) and I haven't tried robotc, however I am able to communicate with the NXT in OSX on an intel mac, using bluetooth serial ports and ruby. For more info see: (URL) (18 years ago, 29-Sep-06, to lugnet.robotics)

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  Re: NXT Bluetooth on Intel Based Macs
 
(...) Unfortunately no. NXT-G is currently a PPC app so it has to run under rosetta. Bluetooth is unavailable to apps running under rosetta. You can connect to it via bluetooth outside of NXT-G though if you write a program to communicate with it (...) (18 years ago, 1-Aug-06, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.nxt)

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