POP! Project, POP-168 , POP-MCU , Unicon & POP-XT board

POP-168 getting start on MacOS X Leopard 10.5.x , Arduino 0012

From online guide “How to get Arduino running on MacOS X 10.3.9 or later”
http://www.arduino.cc/en/Guide/MacOSX
Test on MacOS X Leopard 10.5 (Intel),

First, download Arduino software MacOS X package on
http://arduino.cc/en/Main/Software , about 63.45MB
unpack to Desktop and get in the folder “arduino-0012”

because modern Mac machine no have generic Serial port built-in like PC, then USB to Serial port adapter is needed for communication. We’d recommend adapter using FTDI chip (INEX’s UCON-232S)

open subfolder “drivers” then open (mount) FTDIUSBSerialDriver_v2_2_9_Intel.dmg (If you using PPC, mount another file FTDIUSBSerialDriver_V2_1_9.dmg) then run the extracted package installer file and follow the instruction .

after finished, system will force to restart machine again..

after back to MacOS X , Arduino is Ready to use..

Run Arduino software and open menu

Select Board -> Arduino Mini for POP-168 Module

and Select port -> /dev/tty.usbserial-A1000q5a (or other in /tty.usbserial-Axxxxxxx format) for FTDI chip (also UCON-232S adapter)

if you machine is not Apple Inc. machine (AKA. MacClone, HackIntosh) which generic RS-232 Serial Port available. It’s will appear on menu as /dev/tty.serial1