[Coco] Radio Shack STAMP Developer's Kit

[Bob Devries]

The BASIC Stamp is based on a PIC chip. I have seen plans for using PIC 
chips in MIDI devices.

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Regards, Bob Devries, Dalby, Queensland, Australia

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the capacity to be his spokesman,
so that I know how to help the weary.

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: <KnudsenMJ at aol.com>
To: <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Saturday, March 25, 2006 2:52 PM
Subject: [Coco] Radio Shack STAMP Developer's Kit


> Say, apropos the recent discussion of the STAMP and other micro 
> controllers
> -- just today I found, hanging on the wall at the local Shack, an $89
> developer's kit for a STAMP, including small PC board with prototyping 
> sockets,  a
> textbook, and presumably the PC software to talk to it over the RS232 
> serial
> port.
>
> Anyone try this?  Is the STAMP any good for fast data processing, like
> serial port data (as in MIDI), or is it restricted to slow events such as 
> toy
> robot control?  There was a second kit for a small robot that rolls across 
> the
> floor, senses when it hits something, backs away and turns, etc.
>
> Do STAMPs come in families, of slower and faster?  What does anyone  know?
> This would be a great chance to get into something, for those of us  who 
> don't
> have lots of spare junk Coco 6809 boards and ROM burners (I do have a 
> classic
> ROM burner, but no cheat-sheet for it).
>
> Oh yes, the Shack also sells a small PC board making kit for $15.
> Thanks, Mike K.
>
>
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