actually as much as im against the basic stamp and the whole mark up your produc t 95% coorporate world...i would have to say the answer is YES. their language is real simple, the entire device is a nice small size with basically all onboar d hardware. However i just rather take my time and learn the PIC instruction se t (which isnt that hard to get goin) and prog chips at around $4.00 a peice inst ead of a $70 stamp (or however much they are) mIkE On Sat, 6 Nov 1999 17:39:13 -0800 Darren King wrote: >So would basic stamps be more useful to people who don't know how to program >in the assembly or are the just more convient cause they have the on board >power regulator and what not? what is STI-64. Some roll you own PIC Code? > >Darren King > > >----- Original Message ----- >From: John Mullan >To: >Sent: Thursday, November 04, 1999 7:47 PM >Subject: Re: BASIC STAMPS? > > >> Well Don this sounds promising. I may get around to trying it. However, >> at the moment I have a 4 dozen 16C84 chips that I would like to put to >good >> use and was hoping for source that works in it (utilizing the serial >EEPROM >> of course). >> >> I'll keep my eyes open for the updated STI-64 though. >> >> Reguards, >> >> John Mullan >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Don McKenzie [SMTP:don@DONTRONICS.COM] >> Sent: Thursday, November 04, 1999 10:09 PM >> To: PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU >> Subject: Re: BASIC STAMPS? >> >> John Mullan wrote: >> > >> > I like the idea of rolling my own "basic stamp". I've been meaning to >> give >> > STI-64 a try. But I would like to see it use external SEEPROM. >> > >> > Has anyone modified the code to do this yet?? >> >> It will be done some time in the future along with a few other >> enhancements, however in the meantime perhaps you would like to look at: >> http://www.dontronics.com/tiny51.html >> as an alternative. >> >> Again this is a future product, but this one I would imagine will be >> available Jan-00 or before. Should that be "2000". I guess I better >> start using four digits before my keyboard falls out of the sky, or I >> fall off my rocking chair. :-) >> >> Don McKenzie mailto:don@dontronics.com http://www.dontronics.com >> >> Don's Download Dungeon: http://www.dontronics.com/download.html >> World's Largest Range of Atmel and PICmicro Hardware and Software >> > Send someone a cool Dynamitemail flashcard greeting!! And get rewarded. GO AHEAD! http://cards.dynamitemail.com/index.php3?rid=fc-41