Tag: OSX

  • Mac OSX Serial Terminal for ARC

    Mac OSX Serial Terminal for ARC

    I’ve long wanted to build a terminal and testing application for my products. Using the exceptional QT Creator, I was able to cook one up in a relatively short period of time! This application was built using the QT Terminal example program, so it will work for the ARC Triggerscope 2, 16, and Triggerscope 3 […]

  • An awesome gerber viewer for OSX

    An awesome gerber viewer for OSX

    While there are a few viewing tools available for OSX, I’ve been looking for something that was higher quality, and more configurable. Today I stumbled upon Cuprum. This viewer supports layering, export of user-configured views, some good print options and other stuff. It’s $13 on the Mac App store, and well worth it IMHO.   […]

  • Running HASP Licenses on Virtual machines

    One of the downsides to using OSX for my primary operating system is that most of the major imaging programs are windows-only. To compound the trouble, many of these programs, like NIS Elements, use the “HASP” license manager to communicate with a security key in order to fight piracy. So, you have to have this […]