{"id":10059,"date":"2015-03-31T14:57:31","date_gmt":"2015-03-31T03:57:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/legoeng.local\/?p=10059"},"modified":"2017-12-21T14:41:43","modified_gmt":"2017-12-21T03:41:43","slug":"rcx-usb-tower-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/legoeng.local\/rcx-usb-tower-support\/","title":{"rendered":"RCX USB tower support"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/legoeng.local\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/RCX-with-USB-tower.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-10065\" src=\"http:\/\/legoeng.local\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/RCX-with-USB-tower-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"RCX with USB tower\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/legoeng.local\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/RCX-with-USB-tower-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/legoeng.local\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/RCX-with-USB-tower.jpg 768w, http:\/\/legoeng.local\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/RCX-with-USB-tower-600x800.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a>This article provides instructions for installing the necessary drivers to use the RCX USB tower with <a title=\"ROBOLAB for LabVIEW\" href=\"http:\/\/legoeng.local\/robolab-for-labview\/\">ROBOLAB for LabVIEW<\/a>. These instructions have been tested on Mac OS X 10.9 and 10.10 as well as\u00a032-bit and 64-bit Windows 7.<\/p>\n<p>For RCX USB tower support&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>1. Install LabVIEW for LEGO MINDSTORMS and\/or the relevant MINDSTORMS add-on. See\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/decibel.ni.com\/content\/docs\/DOC-15615\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/decibel.ni.com\/<wbr \/>content\/docs\/DOC-15615<\/a> for more details and links to these downloads.<\/p>\n<p>2. Install <a title=\"ROBOLAB for LabVIEW\" href=\"http:\/\/legoeng.local\/robolab-for-labview\/\">ROBOLAB for LabVIEW<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>3. Install\u00a0 NI-VISA&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Windows: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ni.com\/download\/ni-visa-14.0.1\/5023\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.ni.com\/download\/ni-visa-14.0.1\/5023\/en\/<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Mac OS X: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ni.com\/download\/ni-visa-14.0\/4913\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.ni.com\/download\/ni-visa-14.0\/4913\/en\/<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>4.\u00a0 If installing on Windows, you will have to run the VISA Wizard<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">a. Find it in your Start menu<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/legoeng.local\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/VISA-Wizard.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-10060\" src=\"http:\/\/legoeng.local\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/VISA-Wizard-300x144.png\" alt=\"VISA Wizard\" width=\"300\" height=\"144\" srcset=\"http:\/\/legoeng.local\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/VISA-Wizard-300x144.png 300w, http:\/\/legoeng.local\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/VISA-Wizard-600x288.png 600w, http:\/\/legoeng.local\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/VISA-Wizard.png 720w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">b. Choose USB:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/legoeng.local\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/hardware-bus.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-10061 \" src=\"http:\/\/legoeng.local\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/hardware-bus.png\" alt=\"hardware bus\" width=\"478\" height=\"105\" srcset=\"http:\/\/legoeng.local\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/hardware-bus.png 888w, http:\/\/legoeng.local\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/hardware-bus-300x66.png 300w, http:\/\/legoeng.local\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/hardware-bus-600x132.png 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 478px) 100vw, 478px\" \/><\/a> c. Select the LEGO tower (the tower must be plugged in to appear):<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/legoeng.local\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/USB-device-selection.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-10062\" src=\"http:\/\/legoeng.local\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/USB-device-selection.png\" alt=\"USB - device selection\" width=\"497\" height=\"369\" srcset=\"http:\/\/legoeng.local\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/USB-device-selection.png 694w, http:\/\/legoeng.local\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/USB-device-selection-300x223.png 300w, http:\/\/legoeng.local\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/USB-device-selection-600x445.png 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 497px) 100vw, 497px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">d. Give your INF files a name (default is fine)<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">e. Allow the wizard to install and hit finish.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/legoeng.local\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Install-the-generated-files.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-10063\" src=\"http:\/\/legoeng.local\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Install-the-generated-files.png\" alt=\"Install the generated files\" width=\"421\" height=\"83\" srcset=\"http:\/\/legoeng.local\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Install-the-generated-files.png 649w, http:\/\/legoeng.local\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Install-the-generated-files-300x59.png 300w, http:\/\/legoeng.local\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Install-the-generated-files-600x118.png 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 421px) 100vw, 421px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">f. Restart LabVIEW and run ROBOLAB for LabVIEW (Tools &gt; Robolab 2.9.4d\u2026)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This article provides instructions for installing the necessary drivers to use the RCX USB tower with ROBOLAB for LabVIEW. These instructions have been tested on Mac OS X 10.9 and 10.10 as well as\u00a032-bit and 64-bit Windows 7. For RCX USB tower support&#8230; 1. Install LabVIEW for LEGO MINDSTORMS and\/or the relevant MINDSTORMS add-on. See\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":10065,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,159],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/legoeng.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10059"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/legoeng.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/legoeng.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/legoeng.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/legoeng.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/legoeng.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10059\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/legoeng.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/legoeng.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/legoeng.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/legoeng.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}