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                             FIGURE 13-6: MacBS2 for Mac OS X


                             After you’ve downloaded one of the programming environments, getting it running and
                             connected to the Basic Stamp is easy. Plug a 9V battery or power adapter into the Board of
                             Education, connect the Board of Education serial port to your USB-to-serial adapter, and
                             click the Identify/ID Stamp button. The program should beep and tell you it found the Basic
                             Stamp. Hook up the familiar LED and resistor circuit to a pin on the Stamp and click Run.
                             The program will be tokenized and uploaded to the Stamp and start running. Figure 13-7
                             shows a typical setup and a running blink program (although the light looks like a simple
                             white circle when shown in a black-and-white photograph).

                             If the Stamp isn’t detected, make sure the 0-1-2 power switch on the Board of Education is set
                             to position 1 or 2.
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