Problems using paralell port
Hi
I'm fairly new to Basic Stamp and new to this forum so my·apologies if this issue has been answered previously although I did look through the last 5 pages of posts and did not see anything. I have been programming my BS2 through my USB port no problem.
I recently purchased a 'Toddler' kit which only has a serial port. I have set up an older P2 machine with a serial port which I have been using. However, for convenience I would really like to us my laptop which does not have a serial port. I did find an old paralell to serial adapter and tried that but the board does not pick it up. It asks me to add serial port entries to the list. Unfortunately there doesn't seem to be a way to enter the printer port. Is there a work around for this? - without buying the $50 USB - Serial cable.
Thanks
I'm fairly new to Basic Stamp and new to this forum so my·apologies if this issue has been answered previously although I did look through the last 5 pages of posts and did not see anything. I have been programming my BS2 through my USB port no problem.
I recently purchased a 'Toddler' kit which only has a serial port. I have set up an older P2 machine with a serial port which I have been using. However, for convenience I would really like to us my laptop which does not have a serial port. I did find an old paralell to serial adapter and tried that but the board does not pick it up. It asks me to add serial port entries to the list. Unfortunately there doesn't seem to be a way to enter the printer port. Is there a work around for this? - without buying the $50 USB - Serial cable.
Thanks
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You will need an adapter for your laptop, but you don't need to spend $50.00 for it. There is an USB to serial adapter that Parallax sells (guaranteed to work) for $ 29.00 US (link below). Unfortunately, I see that it's backordered until 3/31/2006.
The reason why I said "guaranteed to work" is that there are other USB to serial adapters on the market, sold by others, which do not completely support all the RS-232 lines in their emulation, and thus will not work for progrramming Parallax products.
Here is the link to the Parallax USB2SER Adapter:
http://www.parallax.com/detail.asp?product_id=28024
Regards,
Bruce Bates
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http://www.parallax.com/detail.asp?product_id=800-00030
this one actually adds a serial port
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Jon Williams
Applications Engineer, Parallax
Bill Sykes
What's the brand and model number of the $20.00 Serial to USB adapter that works great?
Post Edited (SciTech02) : 3/20/2006 10:11:08 PM GMT
But thanks for documenting one that works at the right price.