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Re: how to get started programming a Spybot on the Mac?
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lugnet.robotics.spybotics
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Wed, 2 Nov 2005 15:07:36 GMT
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In lugnet.robotics.spybotics, Timothy P. Smith wrote:
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Best way to get started would be to buy an RCX and a PC!
;)
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Heh -- if robotics required a PC, I’d take up knitting instead!
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Seriously, if you can’t get NQC to run on your Mac, you might be able to find
a decent Windows Emulator that does and use that. Or buy or be given an older
PC- doesn’t take a lot of processing power to do this...
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No need; MacNQC seems to run great and looks like a really nice environment. It
goes beyond just compiling & downloading NQC code, and includes various
interactive panels that let you query & control the robot directly. It also
looks like it should work fine with the Spybot controller.
My problem at the moment is that the USB/serial converter I have is the wrong
type; it’s got a MINIDIN-8 connector on the end instead of the DB9 needed by the
Spybotics cable. I found another Mac Spybotics user in my area, and he had a
similar problem until he got a USB/serial-DB9 converter, and now it’s working
fine for him. So that’s probably all I need.
I’ll keep y’all posted on my progress, so if somebody else comes along later in
the same boat, they can learn from my mistakes!
Best,
- Joe
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