The Mac Electronics Mailing List provides a place for Macintosh users who build electronics to discuss ways to use their Macs to design, program, and interface to those projects.

Mac users often hear about some neat new gadget such as PICstics or Stamps or simulation software or such only to discover that the required software only runs on the PC or that it requires a parallel port.

The president of our local robotics club once told the group that if you want to work on electronics, you needed to get a PC, as there was nothing available for the Mac. There is some truth to that, I hope we can change it. There are resources available for Mac users. I hope we can share with each other interfaces and resources and ideas on how to use what we have and how to overcome the places we currently have limitations. For some good starting places, see Jim Lee's Mac Robotics Links page.

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The Ground Rules

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While the traffic is low, I will allow most anything but spam. If the traffic gets high, I will want the chatter cut down.

Otherwise, I will let you know if I think that something is getting out of hand.

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Welcome to the List! -Chuck-