Before you go reinventing the wheel, you might look at what's already out
there. microEngineering Labs produces PIC Basic which is a BASIC compiler
originally designed with a very high level of source code compatibility
with the BASIC Stamp. But since it's a compiler it produces PIC
instructions instead of tokens, so it runs orders of magnitude faster than
any interpreter can. Last I looked PIC Basic was about $100.

Add an IDE and a bootloader to that and Stamps are a thing of the past.
(both of which are available free)

I prefer PIC Basic Pro, it cost more like $250, but it allows speeds other
than 4Mhz and programs bigger than 2k (among other things) And I use
microCodeStudio for my IDE and bootloader (about $50).

Pic basic and pic basic pro are available as limited demos on the
www.melabs.com web site.

It'd take a lot of software development to come up with a comparable
solution.

-Denny

> Hi
> Thanks for replying
>
> Yup 18 series have more stuff and more memory too.
> Hmm Hope to do something that at least have function of a stamp but of
cos
> must go for more
> some thing low cost and every one can use it.
>
> I have try some coding on 16 series works quite well i agreee if it is
done
> no 18 it will be better.
> I heard that the 18 series instruction set is a bit different.
>
> on top of that to process a token you need a write a complier , anyway i
am
> not software trained all the while i have being using the marco in the
MPlab
> to generate the token values but it work fine  is just a trouble of
> switching between the bootloader and the IDE
>
> so embarrassing hahhaa
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jan-Erik Soderholm XA (TN/PAC)"
<jan-erik.xa.soderholm@ERICSSON.COM>
> To: <PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU>
> Sent: Sunday, January 11, 2004 2:38 AM
> Subject: Re: [PIC]: Any one interested in developing a Open Source stamp
c
> lone using 16F87X
>
>
> > Ji.
> >
> > Target a 18-series PIC instead and you get a lot
> > of added features. The cost of the PIC will
> > probably be just a (smaller ?) part of the
> > whole project anyway. I think that 18-series
> > architecture also makes it easier to implement
> > the runtime environment processing the byte tokens.
> >
> > With a "Stamp clone", do you mean something that runs the
> > same source code or just built more or less the same way ?
> >
> > Jan-Erik.
> >
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: pic microcontroller discussion list
> > > [mailto:PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU]On Behalf Of PSL
> > > Sent: den 10 januari 2004 18:58
> > > To: PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU
> > > Subject: [PIC]: Any one interested in developing a Open Source stamp
> > > clone using 16F87X
> > >
> > >
> > > Hi any one want to develop a basic stamp clone
> > >
> > > using byte oriented token can create something that work like
> > > a basic stamp
> > > or better.
> > >
> > > Any one interested we can talk about it and do it together
> > > using what we
> > > find on the piclist resource
> > >
> > > :)
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