The Tower Development Environment allows you to program PIC and Rabbit Tower Foundations as well as the PICProto layer. Please note that you will need Java Runtime v1.2 or later running on your computer. These distributions are intended for the Windows operating system and have been used only on Windows 2000 machines in our development. It could in principle be used on any system with Java 1.2 and a library for the Java Communications API (javax.comm). We welcome any advice for its use on other platforms on the Tower Support Forums.

Downloads of the Tower Development Environment are below. If you require password information, please write to us at tower-request@media.mit.edu. See this page for information on obtaining support or getting Towers.

TDE changelog
TDE 2-6-2003 [271 kB]
TDE 12-17-2002 [271 kB]
TDE 12-07-2002 [272 kB]
TDE 9-29-2002 [260 kB]
TDE 8-18-2002 [254 kB]
TDE 8-14-2002 [237 kB]
TDE 8-03-2002 [235 kB]