Has anyone had any experience using the USB PICs with Mac OS X?
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Has anyone had any experience using the USB PICs with Mac OS X?
i was wondering about that also. i am hoping to make a cross-platform product, and have very little practical mac hardware experience...
anyone know? programming and stuff isnt as important as the ability for a mac to detect the hardware and use it (hid or usb to rs232 or otherwise?)
at the very least...
i searched on mac os and HID... mac os has some sort of HID, but how compatible it is, I dont know... I really do wish i had a compact, older osx machine.... eventually...
i wonder
I have managed to find the software for the Microchip PicKit2 Programmer as well as a USB bootloader for Mac OS X. I have tested a few sample HID projects which all seem to work natively with need of any drivers but still do not know how to write software for Mac OS X to work with a PIC.
Most likely I will do the programming with RealBasic since it will compile for Mac, Windows and Linux.
If anyone has or knows of any samples for programming in either Mac OS X or RealBasic, I would greatly appreciate any help.
Thanks
search the board. i remember recently seeing someone having converted the USBDEMO program into realbasic, i think. noone seemed interested at the time, but it piqued my interest. unfortunately i have no mac, but i want to know as much as possible about making it cross platform, or at least considering portability.
please keep the board informed, even if no one seems interested!
I've been developing a mac OS X based PIC development environment that may work for your application. It is proceeding quite well and I am intending to release it as shareware in the near future (current planning is within the next 2 months). It supports nearly all 12-bit, 14-bit and 16-bit core PIC's, including those with USB-modules. The software also features an integrated assembler/disassembler for these chips but no higher-level languages like basic at this point.
With respect to hardware, I am currently using it with a homemade programmer (based on the once-popular mac based PIC programmer by Francis Deck, but improved to support more chips) connected to the USB port via an FTDI USB-serial chip of which I had a number lying around, which works well albeit not particularly fast. My plan is to include support for a number of the popular more modern programmers available (PICkit, wisp628, etc) in the next version of the software. I will also publish full instructions chematic/PCB etc. of the programmer I am using.
Wouter.