USB BOEBOT issues...working fine now, but wonder if anyone has seen this?
I have been using the Basis Stamp Editor since last year on my "What's A Microcontroller?" projects...I am familiar with both the basic stamp, and the editor.
I bought a USB BoeBot for my son at the Maker Faire, and we are finally getting around to building it. I was able to easily download and install and use the Basic Stamp Editor V2.2.5. Got it from the Parallax website. No problem. However, at first I tried to install the software from the CD that came with the USB BoeBot, and had no luck at all. The hard drive keep running, and I never saw anything on the C drive. I tried several methods, but bottom line....the CD software did not install...I went to the Internet, and in worked instantly....So....anyone else have this problem?
BTW, the software works fine, except for one glitch I had to work out.. I plugged in the BOE, and the software detected the stamp fine. But when my son tried to run the very first program, the Editor indicated there was a Hardware problem. Even though it had just detected the Stamp fine. Turns out I am connecting this BOE to the usb through a Belkin USB 2.0 PCI card. It showed up as COM 3 when the Editor originally detected it...The detector dialogue box also showed COM 1 and COM 2 with nothing there. So it was only after I deleted the COM 1 and COM 2 ports in the dialogue box that the COM 3 USB 2.0 port ran the program. Again, the Editor had previously detected the COM 3 USB connected stamp, but would not run the program there. Does anyone have any insight to these two issues?
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Ron Giuntini
San Francisco
I bought a USB BoeBot for my son at the Maker Faire, and we are finally getting around to building it. I was able to easily download and install and use the Basic Stamp Editor V2.2.5. Got it from the Parallax website. No problem. However, at first I tried to install the software from the CD that came with the USB BoeBot, and had no luck at all. The hard drive keep running, and I never saw anything on the C drive. I tried several methods, but bottom line....the CD software did not install...I went to the Internet, and in worked instantly....So....anyone else have this problem?
BTW, the software works fine, except for one glitch I had to work out.. I plugged in the BOE, and the software detected the stamp fine. But when my son tried to run the very first program, the Editor indicated there was a Hardware problem. Even though it had just detected the Stamp fine. Turns out I am connecting this BOE to the usb through a Belkin USB 2.0 PCI card. It showed up as COM 3 when the Editor originally detected it...The detector dialogue box also showed COM 1 and COM 2 with nothing there. So it was only after I deleted the COM 1 and COM 2 ports in the dialogue box that the COM 3 USB 2.0 port ran the program. Again, the Editor had previously detected the COM 3 USB connected stamp, but would not run the program there. Does anyone have any insight to these two issues?
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Ron Giuntini
San Francisco
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Ryan Clarke
Parallax Tech Support
RClarke@Parallax.com
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Ron Giuntini
San Francisco
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