All posts in the 'Basic Stamp' Category
Posted on 15 Jul 2008
The High Altitude Photographic Balloon use a Parallax BS2px and is responsible for reading and recording latitude, longitude, time, altitude, internal capsule temperature, external capsule temperature, and taking pictures. Additional responsibilities include managing memory storage, relay controls, and audible signals.[more]
Posted on 15 Jul 2008
The BS2-IC handles the startup and shutdown of the computer. One second after the car is started the computer begins to boot. When the Linux operating system is ready to be used, the in-dash VGA LCD turns on. The boot and shutdown process is completely transparent to the user. The dashPC is an integrated computer console built into the dashboard in the car. The computer is interfaced via a 6.4″ Touchscreen VGA LCD display mounted in the center console. In addition, a wireless keyboard / mouse combination is used for text entry. The dashPC has Global Positioning (GPS) and Navigation, Digital Video Discs (DVDs), Games (Quake 3, SoF, UT), Address book database, etc.[more]
Posted on 15 Jul 2008
This is a fairly recent project that began in June 2002. Over the previous 20 or so years, model railroading was limited to the collection of an occasional piece of track when visiting the hobby shop for R/C model airplane stuff. [more]
Posted on 15 Jul 2008
This is an application for reading stock quotes into an excel spread sheet and alerting the user when the stock quotes have exceeded or dropped below a certain price threshold. The project uses the SerialPort class to send commands to the Parallax Basic Stamp Microcontroller.[more]
Posted on 15 Jul 2008
The interface uses a Stamp BASIC Stamp 2 microcontroller. This comprises a PIC with an on-board PBASIC-code interpreter chip and some RAM for user code. The BASIC Stamp microcontroller is programmed in PBASIC from a PC. There are high level commands for reading/writing square waves, RS232 serial coms, and it runs on 5V. All these factors make it ideal for this kind of project.[more]
