[Ham-Mac] bTop1 Development Tools 1.1 now available.

[George Lawrence Storm]

I am a lurker on the list. I just released a new set of Macintosh OS  
X development tools for the bTop1, a USB2 data acquisition and  
control board I have been working with.

As there are so few products specifically for those of us who do  
electronics on the Mac I thought you might want to know.

George Lawrence Storm - WA3REX

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19 January 2006, Portland, Oregon. Perfectly Scientific, Inc.  
<www.perfsci.com> announces the newest release of their development  
tools supporting the bTop-1 board. This release adds support for the  
UNIX command line, C and RealBasic in addition to it's native  
Objective C environment.

These single call UNIX (or C) API's make it even easier than the  
original Cocoa interface to acquire your data or control your real  
world objects. Communicating with the bTop1 board using UNIX or C, a  
server now runs in the background so that initialization and  
monitoring of your bTop1 boards is handled for you, allowing you to  
concentrate on building your own app and not spending your  
development time supporting the bTop1.

The bTop-1 lab acquisition and control system from Perfectly  
Scientific, Inc. was designed specifically for Mac OS X. The card  
provides a new, easy way to connect your Mac to the physical world,  
and do so with great economy and efficiency. "bTop" is an acronym for  
giving one's computer a laboratory "bench-top," beyond the usual  
"desktop."  The bTop-1 board includes its own processor with  
dedicated RAM. The board uses full-speed USB 2.0 offering 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, UNIX, C or RealBasic API's, prototyping and  
development of custom applications is simple and fast.

Included in the development tools are several example applications, a  
"Cookbook" and full source code.  The software is designed to get the  
user up and going as soon as possible in developing lab  
applications.  This software is open source and can be downloaded at  
no charge from www.perfsci.com/hardware.htm

The bTop-1 provides the best value for your data acquisition and  
control needs by offering 16 digital I/O channels, 12 bit D to A  
resolution and the highest analog channel count of any USB data  
acquisition/control card available for the Macintosh platform at one  
of the lowest price points.

bTop Development Tools 1.1 with full source code including firmware  
source are distributed under the a BSD style license and may be  
downloaded at no cost from: <http://www.perfsci.com/hardware.htm>.

Perfectly Scientific, Inc. was founded in 1997 and specializes in  
custom algorithm development, while also carrying a line of  
scientific products.

For more information contact:
Perfectly Scientific, Inc.,
3754 SE Knight St., Portland, OR. 97202
(503) 774-4738, Fax: (503) 774-1820
email :info at perfsci.com