Please complete the checklist items below before you come to a hands-on course that makes use of Stamps in Class materials and BASIC Stamp education platforms from Parallax Inc.
NOTE: If you have any questions or get stuck at any point, please contact Parallax Technical Support for assistance
Email: support@parallax.com
Phone: 916-624-8333.
Laptop Checklist
- Bring a laptop you own so that you have administrator account privileges during the course. (Unless you are sure you have a full administrator account on your school computer or your IT is coming with you!)
- Bring your laptop’s power cable for plugging into an electrical outlet.
- Make sure your laptop has at least one available USB 2.0 A port (like the port below the arrow in the picture).
- Make sure the computer you’re bringing has one of these operating systems:
- Windows XP, 7, 8, 8.1, 10
- Mac OSX 10.7…10.10 (Lion, Mountain Lion, Mavericks, or Yosemite)
- Chrome OS (Google Chromebook)
- DO NOT bring any of these:
- Tablet or computer with Windows RT
- iPad with IOS
- Tablet or computer with an Android OS
Software Install Checklist
- Follow the installation for your OS below.
Mac Alternative
MacBS2 is included here as a second option in case Parallax IDE doesn’t work on certain Mac systems.
- Make sure you are running Mac OSX 10.8 (Mountain Lion) or newer.
- Follow the instructions for downloading and installing the driver for your Mac’s OS in the Mac, Chromebook, Linux, Windows 10 section.
- Download MacBS2…zip.
- Safari will automatically unzip MacBS2 and leave it in your downloads folder. Other browsers will leave MacBS2…zip in the downloads folder, and you will have to double-click the file to unzip.
- Use Finder to move the MacBS2 application from the Downloads folder to your Applications Folder.
If your computer has a Windows OS, the BASIC Stamp Editor will be your first choice.
- Find and download “BS-Setup-Stamp-Editor-v2.5.3-(r2).exe” from this page: BASIC Stamp Editor Software.
- Follow steps 1 and 2 on that page, making sure to accept all the defaults when you run the installer.
- If you have Windows 10, download and install Win-USB-Serial-Driver_v2.02.06.
Mac Alternative
MacBS2 is included here as a second option in case Parallax IDE doesn’t work on certain Mac systems.
- Make sure you are running Mac OSX 10.8 (Mountain Lion) or newer.
- Follow the instructions for downloading and installing the driver for your Mac’s OS in the Mac, Chromebook, Linux, Windows 10 section.
- Download MacBS2…zip.
- Safari will automatically unzip MacBS2 and leave it in your downloads folder. Other browsers will leave MacBS2…zip in the downloads folder, and you will have to double-click the file to unzip.
- Use Finder to move the MacBS2 application from the Downloads folder to your Applications Folder.
Parallax IDE runs within Google Chrome, and can be run on Mac, Chromebook, and Windows. It also runs on Ubuntu and some other Linux variants.
- If your computer’s OS is in this list, click the USB driver link to download it. Then, double-click the download to run it, and follow the prompts to install the driver.
- Mac OSX 10.7, 10.8 (Lion, Mountain Lion) Mac-USB-Serial-Driver_v2_2_18.dmg. (Restart after installing.)
- Mac OSX 10.9, 10.10 (Mavericks, Yosemite) Mac-SB-Serial-Driver_v2_3.dmg. (Restart after installing.)
- Windows Win-USB-Serial-Driver_v2.02.06 (Skip if you already installed the BASIC Stamp Editor.)
- Make sure your computer has a Google Chrome web browser installed.
- Go to the Parallax IDE app in the Chrome Web Store.
- Click the + Add to Chrome button. It looks like this:
Mac Alternative
MacBS2 is included here as a second option in case Parallax IDE doesn’t work on certain Mac systems.
- Make sure you are running Mac OSX 10.8 (Mountain Lion) or newer.
- Follow the instructions for downloading and installing the driver for your Mac’s OS in the Mac, Chromebook, Linux, Windows 10 section.
- Download MacBS2…zip.
- Safari will automatically unzip MacBS2 and leave it in your downloads folder. Other browsers will leave MacBS2…zip in the downloads folder, and you will have to double-click the file to unzip.
- Use Finder to move the MacBS2 application from the Downloads folder to your Applications Folder.
MacBS2 is included here as a second option in case Parallax IDE doesn’t work on certain Mac systems.
- Make sure you are running Mac OSX 10.8 (Mountain Lion) or newer.
- Follow the instructions for downloading and installing the driver for your Mac’s OS in the Mac, Chromebook, Linux, Windows 10 section.
- Download MacBS2…zip.
- Safari will automatically unzip MacBS2 and leave it in your downloads folder. Other browsers will leave MacBS2…zip in the downloads folder, and you will have to double-click the file to unzip.
- Use Finder to move the MacBS2 application from the Downloads folder to your Applications Folder.
