Hello Chris and William,
Tony Barry writing.
On 13/05/2007, at 8:56 PM, Chris Smolinski wrote:
>> From: William Squires <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> Does anyone know if Keyspan (or others) still make a USB->Parallel-
>> port adapter with OS X drivers? I'm pretty sure there's a USB->serial
>> adapter using the FTDI chipset - is this still available through
>> Keyspan? How about Belkin?
>> Also, if such a converter is available (for parallel), can it be
>> addressed by RB in the same way as the USB->serial converter (at
>> least on OS X?)
> I'd suggest taking a look at the FTDI FT245 chip, which is a parallel
> version of their FT232 USB/serial chip. There's a nifty little module
> that has a FT245, USB connector, and support circuitry all installed
> on a tiny DIP plugin PCB, perfect for prototyping or small production
> runs: http://www.ftdichip.com/Products/EvaluationKits/UM245R.htm
My experience with the OS X FTDI driver for the 245 part was not
good ... the driver could lose packets on a verbose transaction. I
have **not** tested this with the newest OS X driver as the board I
used to verify the issue is now part of Something Else.
>
>> More importantly, will they work on the new Intel Macs, and with
>> Parallels/Boot Camp?
>
> Works fine.
>
>> I want to make a simple assembler for the PIC microcontroller for
>> OS X, then expand it to cover other microcontrollers, too (like Atmel
>> AVR, Parallax Basic-stamp/SX##/Propellor, etc...) This will be an OS
>> X only project as there are plenty of programmers on the Windows
>> side...
>>
>
> Good luck! I use Parallels (or a real PC) for PIC development, since
> as you say there are no Mac solutions.
People, have you had a look at Arduino? It is absolutely amazing.
USB - serial on board (FTDI). C compiler (AVR-GCC). Nice IDE.
Cheeeep board, about AUD55. ATmega168. 6 x ADC ports. PWM etc.
20MHz clock, almost 20 assembler MIPS. The only drawback for
commercial purposes is the GPL, and as I am not a lawyer I shall
leave the discussion to those who know more.
The board could easily be tweaked to run under RB, as the serial
control works well with Arduino.
http://www.arduino.cc/en/Guide/MacOSX
Regards,
TB
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