The First 100 Years Are The Hardest

Linux Support for the Parallax BOE-BOT (Board of Education Robot) I'm leading a robotics class for the Boys and Girls Club of Collin County on Saturdays. Today I got my BOE-BOT working with Linux over USB! (albeit the interface is still limited to the command line). Here's how I did it: 1) Download the Basic Stamp Tools for Linux from SourceForge 2) Extract to a local directory and make/make install (w/ sudo when necessary) 3) Plug your Boe-Bot into the USB port, and use the "dmesg" command to deterime the correct port. My port was ttyUSBO: usb 2-3: FTDI USB Serial Device converter now attached to ttyUSB0 usb 2-3: New USB device found, idVendor=0403, idProduct=6001 usb 2-3: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3 usb 2-3: Product: FT232R USB UART usb 2-3: Manufacturer: FTDI usb 2-3: SerialNumber: A7005rCF 4) Create a symbolic link from your USB port to /dev/bstamp and to the Parallax Tokenizer shared library: bash