Like James said, take a look at BS2... but if you have questions
about using the stamp with rb apps (besides programming) try again on
the list. I know a few of us have used them like this.
mike
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Mike Woodworth
mike at divergentmedia dot com
On Dec 30, 2005, at 9:47 PM, William Squires wrote:
Hi!
Although there are lots of programs out there to let you do PIC/
Basic Stamp programming from a PC, are there any RB users out there
who have successfully used one of the RS232 programmer boards in
combination with a USB->RS232 converter (from KeySpan) from RB (5.0
+ or RB2005) on MacOS X using the serial class?
That is to say, has anyone found the protocol so you can talk to
the board? (both to program it, as well as to read back signals
sent from the board - through the micro-controller - for the Basic-
Stamp/BS2, this is the DEBUG instruction)
I received a Boe-bot kit for Christmas, and it - in addition to
being a neat robot kit - has great potential for animatronics for
model railroads, but would be useful for other hobbies as well :) A
potential which is in part wasted on Mac users, as most programmer
boards are either Centronics Parallel, or only have Win-32 software
drivers/IDEs (or both).
For those unfortunate enough not to have one, the kit contains:
* Win-32 software
* Properly wired (straight-through, not crossover) RS232 cable
* All the parts to build the robot:
* Wheels (x2) and CR (Continuous-Rotation) servos (x2)
* Servo horns (x2)
* BOE board (Rev C)
* 6v battery pack (4 AA)
* Fasteners & other hardware
* Robot chassis
* Kit of components for experimentation:
* several 1/8 W carbon-composition resistors
* 2 IR LEDs
* 2 IR sensors (like the kind used in consumer electronics to
sense IR remotes) w/built-in
IR filters (and an on-board FET amplifier/37 kHz filter)
* several red LEDs
* several capacitors (mylar and electrolytic)
* piezo buzzer
* stripped, solid wire (for breadboarding)
* Basic Stamp 2 micro-controller
* 'whisker' wires for tactile sensing
* 3-pin headers (x2)
* 2 CdS resistors
* Nifty manual which shows how to build and test the robot in stages,
as well as having fun experiments to try (though some require large,
open spaces)
Note that the board can control normal (non-CR) RC plane/car/boat
servos, too - though the programming is different - as long as
they're the same kind (3-wire, utilizing a 1.5 ms 'centering'
pulse) electrically.
Anyway, I hope everyone had a happy holiday season this year -
Here's to RB 2006... :)
William H Squires Jr
4400 Horizon Hill #4006
San Antonio, TX 78229
wsquires at satx dot rr dot com dot nospam <- remove the .nospam
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