Wow… It’s been a while. I have a bunch of Lynxmotion stuff from years ago. I was running it off an Dell desk top.
Today I got the stuff out again with a new project in mind. I have a older robotic arm on a wood base with the Mini SSC II SEE controller using 9 pin serial cable with a phone line.
But now I have a new Toshiba laptop without a 9 pin serial connection.
So I’m accessing my options. New equipment, cable convertors? This laptop has about every other new port you’d need. The Toshiba has a broadband card and I’m interested in some internet controlled projects.
Theoretically, the usb / serial adapter should open up a serial comm port on your PC, so as long as you have it set to send to whatever comm # the adapter is, you should be ok.
A USB-to-serial adapter hardware also includes a driver for a virtual-COM port. So from your application standpoint it just sees a COM port like any other COM port. Unfortunately not all converters are created equal and some work better than others. search the forum, it’s a common enough topic there should be lots of threads by now with the recommended ones, and at the same time you’ll see which settings (like latency) might need tweaking from the defaults for the best operation.
He did say he’s running a new laptop, which I’m guessing, has Vista on it. and I dot recall a member saying one time that he couldn’t get it to work on vista. Am I right?
