BASIC Stamp - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: Lawsen
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: March 12, 2011, 12:21:50 am
content: 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.Lawsen

author: TheDirty
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: March 12, 2011, 03:00:10 am
content: 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.

author: tyblu
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: March 12, 2011, 03:03:27 am
content: I drink protein shakes and pet my cat.

author: GeoffS
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: March 12, 2011, 07:21:47 am
content: Quote from: tyblu on March 12, 2011, 03:03:27 amAt the same time?

author: PeterG
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: March 14, 2011, 04:56:51 am
content: 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

author: Waifian
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: March 15, 2011, 05:09:00 pm
content: My cat eats my resistors... Well attempts to...

author: PeterG
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: March 16, 2011, 11:29:30 pm
content: 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

author: quirmche
author_rank: Contributor
timestamp: March 17, 2011, 01:16:03 am
content: 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.

author: smackaay
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: March 18, 2011, 04:15:23 am
content: 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.

author: bearman
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: March 22, 2011, 02:43:36 am
content: Cats sit around waiting for you to die so they can eat you.That is what they are thinking.

author: PeterG
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: March 22, 2011, 03:44:40 am
content: 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

author: Strube09
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: March 23, 2011, 01:08:37 pm
content: Ahh,What a great thread.... Starts with a confusing post about stamps and turns into a cats and dogs conversation... HA!

author: igeorge
author_rank: Contributor
timestamp: April 29, 2011, 04:46:05 am
content: 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.

author: A-sic Enginerd
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: June 08, 2011, 05:33:23 pm
content: 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.