In order to use the Handy Board, we needed a special software called the Interactive C. We can get a free copy from http://www.botball.org/educational-resources/ic.php.
Your computer must have a serial port to connect to the Handy Board unless your Handy Board comes with a USB port. Unfortunately, most laptops don't have serial ports nowadays. To get around this problem, I purchased a USB to serial adapter. The one I used was made by CP TECHNOLOGIES and its model was CP-US-03. I got it from www.newegg.com and it cost me about $14 including the shipping cost. It worked fine with my Toshiba Portege R100 laptop with WindowsXP. The only thing that I needed to do was to change the port number to COMM1. When I installed the driver software, it automatically picked COMM5. The Interactive C uses either COMM1 or COMM3 to communicate with the Handy Board. So the serial adapter didn't work with the Interactive C by default.
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