Looking For a Way to Connect Your Mac OS X to the Real Physical World

There is now a way to connect your Mac OS X to the real, physical world. And the bTop-1 can do so with great economy and efficiency. Perfectly Scientific, Inc. has introduced its data acquisition/control designed specifically for Mac OS X -- called bTop-1. bTop is an acronym for giving one's computer a laboratory benchtop, beyond the usual desktop. Also included are several example applications, a Cookbook and full source code on CD.

The software is designed to get the user up and going as soon as possible in developing lab applications. Download it for FREE at our Web site URL below. The bTop-1 board includes its own processor with dedicated RAM.

The bTop-1 is perhaps the most efficient means available for connecting Mac OS X to the real world. The bTop-1 includes a software "cookbook", helpful demos, and driver sources which will aid you in your laboratory interface projects.

The bTop-1just like Mac OS X itselfis easy to use, and provides a good array of lab functions for $149.

We stress that bTop-1 is destined to fit into larger projects. For example, George Storm -- a Seattle, WA designer -- has developed a robot named "Chassis," with the linkage between Mac OS X and this robot being PSI's bTop-1. Storm has presented the "Chassis" and his accomplishments with the bTop at a showcase in Seattle, Washington. We at PSI do hope that you can profit in various ways from our hardware interface.

The bTop board also brings great simplicity to interfacing real world elements to the Macintosh. While there have been many similar products available for Windowns/Linux platforms, PSI has found the first cost effective solution for Macintosh.

The board uses full-speed USB 2.0 with 16 channels of digital I/O: 8 channels of 12 bit A-to-D and 8 channels of 8 bit D-to-A. By using its Cocoa API and OS X drivers, prototyping and development of custom applications is simple and fast. The bTop-1 board draws all its power from the USB port. Future expansion is provided for by way of an I2C bus. The bTop-1 ships with the required USB cable.

We have said a lot here about the bTop-1, yet our business remains centered upon the algorithm world. Again, we appreciate your business and look forward to any further communication. Please feel quite free to contact us.

Devin E. Crandall
PSI Marketing Intern

Looking For a Way to Connect Your Mac OS X to the Real Physical World

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