Equipment: The Official
Arduino Starter Kit. There are other starter kits for sale,
which may appear to be cheaper. However, they are frequently only
"Arduino compatible," actually less reliable and often not 100%
equivalent. Also, these kits do not have the same parts.
This is a very old program, but does exactly what we need. It runs only under Microsoft Windows. If anyone comes across a program that does the same thing, and is newer or cross-platform, I would very much like to hear about it.
Geneseo has a cluster of remote-access virtual machines running Windows 7, called VirtualLabs. You can access this through virtually any platform.
Instructions for getting set up are available from CIT at this URL. It involves installing an application or two on your local computer, to comunicate with the remote computer. From off campus, you can only access this through a VPN connection, so you may need to set that up as well.
Both required programs are installed and available on VirtualLabs. VirtualLabs is also able to connect a locally attached USB device (including the Stamp microcontroller) to the remote computer.