"StampDock" graphical/storage/GUI javelin STAMP software for Windows/Mac/Linux
APSpijkerman
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"Stamp dock" Windows/Mac/Linux software.
http://apsdev.com/stampdock/
I have been working on (free) software that provides services to javelin basic stamps
through the serial connection you use to program it.
Works on BASIC Stamps, Javelin Stamps and microcontrollers.
The main features are:
-Provides a big full color graphical display, which can be saved to disk as picture on command.
-Provides an editable GUI for "BASIC Stamps" with buttons, indicators, regulators, meters etc etc.
-Provides an ANSI (color) text window for debug text output.
-Can use the harddisk of a computer to store or load data.
-Provides a 64KB ramdisk.
-Has a system so a "BASIC Stamp" can detect if it is connected (docked) to a PC to store collected data.
-Can play MP3 and video files or streams in the window started from the "BASIC Stamp".
-Can generate synthesized voice sound and beep sounds.
-Can send text messages to a log file with time and date.
-Provides a Real time clock.
-Runs on MS Windows, Apple Macintosh (via USB) and Linux machines.
-Remembers the last used serial port and speed from a previous run.
It emulates a color graphics screen, so you dont need a graphical LCD connected
to the stamp to make graphs of measured values, it can even draw dots in
color so you can show all kinds of "scans".
You can even save the graphics screen to the harddisk of the PC as IFF file.
It is even possible for the software to report mouse clicks to the stamp, so you can create a GUI.
But what is even more practical is that you can edit the GUI resource file and make a GUI
for javelin stamps with buttons, switches, RGB LEDs, potmeters, analogue meters etc etc.
The values of these GUI elements can be set by the javelin stamp, but most can also be
set .. so there are all kinds of analogue indicators.
Also there are other services like storing data on the harddisk of the
PC (and even reading data from harddisk) . making sound (beeps) or
retreiving the time from the PC.
There is also a command to check if the stamp is connected (docked) to a
PC so the stamp knows it can save its collected data on the harddisk of
the PC.
It also has a "normal" debug text window, with an extra option that you
can use ANSI color, and it has a button in the GUI to reset the basic stamp
by setting the DTR line for a 1/50th of a second.
So using software like this you save I/O pins because you dont need pins
for a display, data storage or sound.
Also the GUI of the software is configurable, you can remove bits .. make
the graphics section bigger or even make it full screen.
The software is in an early stage but works, so i wonder if there
are some people willing to test it and provide feedback on the current
options available and what they are missing in functionality.
I've made a fully functional version which you can download from my website at:
http://apsdev.com/stampdock/
Greetings.
Arend-Paul Spijkerman , ap@apsdev.com , www.apsdev.com
http://apsdev.com/stampdock/
I have been working on (free) software that provides services to javelin basic stamps
through the serial connection you use to program it.
Works on BASIC Stamps, Javelin Stamps and microcontrollers.
The main features are:
-Provides a big full color graphical display, which can be saved to disk as picture on command.
-Provides an editable GUI for "BASIC Stamps" with buttons, indicators, regulators, meters etc etc.
-Provides an ANSI (color) text window for debug text output.
-Can use the harddisk of a computer to store or load data.
-Provides a 64KB ramdisk.
-Has a system so a "BASIC Stamp" can detect if it is connected (docked) to a PC to store collected data.
-Can play MP3 and video files or streams in the window started from the "BASIC Stamp".
-Can generate synthesized voice sound and beep sounds.
-Can send text messages to a log file with time and date.
-Provides a Real time clock.
-Runs on MS Windows, Apple Macintosh (via USB) and Linux machines.
-Remembers the last used serial port and speed from a previous run.
It emulates a color graphics screen, so you dont need a graphical LCD connected
to the stamp to make graphs of measured values, it can even draw dots in
color so you can show all kinds of "scans".
You can even save the graphics screen to the harddisk of the PC as IFF file.
It is even possible for the software to report mouse clicks to the stamp, so you can create a GUI.
But what is even more practical is that you can edit the GUI resource file and make a GUI
for javelin stamps with buttons, switches, RGB LEDs, potmeters, analogue meters etc etc.
The values of these GUI elements can be set by the javelin stamp, but most can also be
set .. so there are all kinds of analogue indicators.
Also there are other services like storing data on the harddisk of the
PC (and even reading data from harddisk) . making sound (beeps) or
retreiving the time from the PC.
There is also a command to check if the stamp is connected (docked) to a
PC so the stamp knows it can save its collected data on the harddisk of
the PC.
It also has a "normal" debug text window, with an extra option that you
can use ANSI color, and it has a button in the GUI to reset the basic stamp
by setting the DTR line for a 1/50th of a second.
So using software like this you save I/O pins because you dont need pins
for a display, data storage or sound.
Also the GUI of the software is configurable, you can remove bits .. make
the graphics section bigger or even make it full screen.
The software is in an early stage but works, so i wonder if there
are some people willing to test it and provide feedback on the current
options available and what they are missing in functionality.
I've made a fully functional version which you can download from my website at:
http://apsdev.com/stampdock/
Greetings.
Arend-Paul Spijkerman , ap@apsdev.com , www.apsdev.com
Comments
Thanks for sharing. Will probably try it.
JM
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