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MAC TRONICS
Welcome to Mac-Tronics a place for electronic enthusiasts using Apple Computers. I started this page because most mac-sites for electronics are a bit dated. Hopefully this site will not share the same fate. I hope you find this site useful and do not hesitate to share your knowledge, ideas, links, and suggestion with us.
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The other days I found iTrans. iRed is a USB peripheral to send and recieve IR Codes. I had seen RedRat. RedRat does not have support for MacOS X, you can build the Linux Driver in MacOS X but is not the same, plus is more pricy. In the other hand iTrans has MacOS libraries and includes iRed. iRed is a nice application to control IR devices from your Mac. [[1]].
ActiveWire
Activewire is a USB I/O board with 16 programmable I/O pins that can interface to almost anything. Visit my activewire page
Links
MacBS is a Parallax Tokenizer for MacOS X to program Parallax BasicStamps.
[MACBS2]
Capilano Computing offers great ECAD software for Mac users. They are the makers of DesignWorks Professional an easy-to-use electronic circuit schematic drawing tools. You can also find other great software in their web site.
[Product Page]
CadSoft is the maker of Eagle a schematic and layout program. Since Version 5.0 it runs native and no longer requires X11.
[Product Page]
Boenig and Kallenbach is a German Company makers of the Service USB board. The Service USB board has its own power supply so you can drive different loads up to 15 watts directly from the board. The inputs can retrieve the status from switches and push buttons as well as the analog value from sensors in the range of 0-5V. It has eight each digital inputs and outputs as well as eight bit inputs.
[Product Page]
Delcom focus on usb solutions and provide pre-programmed chips and OS X drivers for the Cypress EZ-USB series. They also have a nice USB starter kit - works great on OS X.
[Company Page]
PSI is the maker of the b-Top data adquisition and control board. The b-Top seems to be a popular board among Mac users.
[Product Page]
Code Mercenaries are the makers of IO-Warrior a I/O board that comes in two models one with 32 generic I/O pins and one with 16 I/O pins.
[Product Page]
The Handy Cricket is a low-cost micro-controller ideal robotics, data collection, electronic art projects, school technology demonstrations, and lots of other applications.
[MIT Page], [Supplier Page]
The Handy Board is a 68HC11-based controller board designed for experimental mobile robotics work. MIT has licensed the Handy Board design at no charge for educational, research, and industrial use. You can buy a pre-made board from [Gleason Research].
[MIT Page], [Supplier Page]
