Basic Stamp Not Found Useing USB to Serial adapter
CamoMan4140
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Hi I'm trying to get my Basic Stamp that came with my Boe-Bot Serial verson to work on my laptop. My problem is that my laptop does not have a COM port so I had to by a USB to Serial adapter. I bought a Belkin one from Staples. When I try to download to the BS2 it says "Basic Stamp Not Found" But both Loopback and Echo say "Yes" But its not finding the BS2. I followed what the book said and turned off the FIFO Buffers and I still have the problem. What's wrong.
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Don't waste your energy trying to make it work. You could adjust the latency timer as a last ditch effort before you take it back to Staples. RadioShack has one that works, though. It's $39. You can also order the version we offer from FTDI.
Sorry about that!
Ken Gracey
Parallax, Inc.
loopback: yes
echo: yes
nothing show in either the device type or version fields.
ideas?
BTW, radio shack charged me about $43 for this.
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Chris Savage
Parallax Tech Support
csavage@parallax.com
My first step was to check the troubleshooting guide for this in appendix A.
This from a boe bot kit that I got my son for christmas.
thx
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Chris Savage
Parallax Tech Support
csavage@parallax.com
Dynex did a great job in wedging it between the two sheets of cardboard and not making any mention of it's existence on the packaging. Duh...how was I supposed to know ??
Well, new batteries (again), double checked chip installation. Still having the same issue, with the power in either position. The led lights up fine as well.
Here is·a link for it: http://www.radioshack.com/product/index.jsp?productId=2036258&cp=&kw=usb+to+serial&parentPage=search
Tom
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Tonight I'm going to see if I can make this work on my Linux box. It'll mean translating thing for my son. Maybe he can use the stamp editor on his laptop and transfer the files to the other maching to compile/transfer.
Tom
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But today I decided to try my Laptop out for programming the pbasic controller and remembered it had NO serial port.
SO doing a search I found this thread. Went to Radio Shack and bought the USB to SERIAL adapter cord thingie and it worked fine on my laptop.
It's a HP Pavillian of some sort.
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The FTDI drivers are installed BEFORE plugging in. I don't know the manufacturer of the Radio Shack adapter cable, so I don't know what its instructions indicate.
I had to fiddle with one setting in the programming software to get it to work. But it did.
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