An art and robotics tech engineering friend gave me her BASIC Stamp. The class was tough for her to grasp. She passed. I was in earth science geology school at the time.
I am practicing using the BASIC Stamp and the Bo Bot:
http://www.parallax.com/tabid/308/Default.aspxThe dot com crashed and my friend is a graphics poster designer for a beverage company in San Jose, California. The Basic Stamp is by a firm in Rocklin, California by Sacramento, California. It has a lot of forclosed houses and 4TH miserable place to live in the U.S.A. along with Stockton by Yahoo news. If I learned about the Basic Stamp, then I will post it.
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Well that was a confusing post. It's been a long time since someone has mentioned a BASIC STAMP. It a PIC with a BASIC interpreter on it. It's slow and it's always been expensive. It was the easy to use goto chip for non-electronics people and beginners before the Arduino went crazy.
I drink protein shakes and pet my cat.
Has anyone been able to decode this post?
I can usually figure out what a post is about, however this one is beyond me.
I recognize Basic Stamp. They were a good idea that was killed off by over pricing(greed). Picaxe and the newer Arduino boards are a lot more cost effective for beginners.
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My cat eats my resistors... Well attempts to...
I love how cats sit and watch what your doing like they actually know what your doing.
Always makes me wonder what they are really thinking.
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Every now and then you can find somebody selling one of parallax's bundles on ebay. I picked up the Boe Bot, Basic Stamp Discovery Board, Process Control, and Sensors kits here and there for a little more than $100 and some change.
I was picky, because I wanted my Board of Education to be usb not serial. Well worth it, the kits also came with a lot of extra components as well.
I've always thought it would be neat to have a device like the basic stamp that would read from files on a microSD card. you could implement an on board interpreter and maybe even a separate MCU to convert the language into a bytecode on the card, then hand control over to the primary MCU.
Cats sit around waiting for you to die so they can eat you.
That is what they are thinking.
Yeah i suspect dogs think similar things. But i notice cats tend to show more interest in what your doing that dogs. Dogs do play better games tho.
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Ahh,
What a great thread.... Starts with a confusing post about stamps and turns into a cats and dogs conversation... HA!
This explain an old saying
"A foul trow a stone in the pond, and 10 scientists try to figure out how the wave ore generated"
A crazy, maybe UNDER ... what ever , put some incoherent words, and everybody just stick around instead to ignore it.
What's with the baggin on Rocklin?
I live and work "in the area". Well, ok, live a bit more rural - 10 min away in an unknown place called Newcastle. Work in Roseville, but can't get from point A to B without going through the Sea of Biege that is Rocklin.
Basic stamp - meh, never had an interest in it. Not enough horsepower to do anything useful. That's one that's a solution in search of a problem.
My dog farts and drives me out of my home office. Need to get an industrial air mover to keep the place breathable.