BASIC Stamp

[Lawsen]

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.aspx

The 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.

Lawsen

[TheDirty]

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.

[tyblu]

I drink protein shakes and pet my cat.

[GeoffS]

I drink protein shakes and pet my cat.

At the same time? 

[PeterG]

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.

Regards

[Waifian]

My cat eats my resistors... Well attempts to...

[PeterG]

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.

Regards

[quirmche]

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.

[smackaay]

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.

[bearman]

Cats sit around waiting for you to die so they can eat you.

That is what they are thinking.

[PeterG]

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.

Regards

[Strube09]

Ahh,

What a great thread.... Starts with a confusing post about stamps and turns into a cats and dogs conversation... HA!

[igeorge]

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.

[A-sic Enginerd]

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.