Suggestions? Yes.. see the Basic Stamp /4 at www.dontronics.com. They are
already doing it for a 16F84. The source is in public domain (I believe).

Good luck,
Dan

----- Original Message -----
From: Mike M <elektrikman@DYNAMITEMAIL.COM>
To: <PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU>
Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 1999 10:35 PM
Subject: Re: Basic stamps and clones


> I know about Pbasic i and several others are trying to create our own
basic stamp type system.  Our own developemet language etc.  The user will
simply download their program into the serial eeprom and then the program we
write in the pic will simply take the tokens stored in the eeprom and
execute them...same idea as a basic stamp...we are doing this for a school
project im majoring in electronics engineering, and we thought build a basic
stamp clone is the easiest way to go...any ideas or suggestions?
>
> On Wed, 29 Sep 1999 18:30:08 -0700 Pete Miles <PeteM@Waterjet-tech.com>
wrote:
> >Mike,
> >
> >Something like this already exists.  A company called MicroEngineering
Labs
> >sells a compiler called PicBasic.  You can program virtually any PIC with
> >basic.  If you use one of the flash PICs such as the 16F84, you now have
a
> >basic stamp that is reprogrammable.  So for about $10 in parts you can
have
> >a basic stamp clone.  The only drawback to this is that the compiler
costs
> >about $200.
> >
> >I am cheap, so I started to learn assembly to program the PICs.  Actually
> >assembly really isn't that hard to learn.  It just takes more planning to
> >get it to work they way you want it to.
> >
> >Pete Miles
> >petem@waterjet-tech.com
> >
> >> ----------
> >> From:        Mike M[SMTP:elektrikman@dynamitemail.com]
> >> Sent:        Wednesday, September 29, 1999 5:24 PM
> >> To:  listserv@mitvma.mit.edu; srs@seattlerobotics.org
> >> Subject:     Basic stamps and clones
> >>
> >> Ive noticed on a lot of these groups people always asking about basic
> >> stamps and pic based controllers in general, I am great at programming
in
> >> vb, but when it comes to assembly im lost.  I understand basic commands
> >> that are in the PIC, mid range, instruction set.  But what i was
thinking
> >> of is desinging a basic stamp clone, (lets face it there are only $10
in
> >> parts on the board, and a programmer did the "real work"!), I can
handle
> >> most of everything i want except for one...retriving the user code out
of
> >> an external eeprom.
> >>
> >> I figured while there are a few messages going around on the subject of
> >> eeproms and serial eeproms, i might as well post the question while
people
> >> are still in the mood.  Anyone that can offer me help possibly code
> >> examples would be great please email me thanks guys.
> >>
> >> elektrikman@dynamitemail.com
> >> mikey
> >>
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> >
>
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