Darren,

The BASIC Stamp is very useful for the quick project where you only
need to use it for a short while and for prototyping a new idea.  Quick
and easy to program with no programmer of special board required.  The
BX-24 is a pin compatible replacement for the BS-2 with much more power.
The BS-2 uses a subset of BASIC and the BX-24 a subset of Visual Basic.
For BS-2 and BX-24 info see Prof. Anderson's site at:
    http://www.phanderson.com/stamp/
    http://www.phanderson.com/basicx/

Good luck and have fun,
 - Nick -

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 <jmullan@CGOCABLE.NET>
> To: <PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU>
> 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
> >