No BASIC Stamps Found error

tyeh26

So I have a new USB Servo controller that i plugged into my computer. I ignored all the popups to install/find drivers. I first tested it with PSC Interface to just play around with it, and it works fine. I then downloaded the Basic Stamp Editor off of parallax and wrote some code. When i hate control+r or just run it says that No BASIC stamps found. This is probably an oversight in something very simple right? is there a setting I have to change to choose which USB port to look for the stamp? Do I have to connect it to the computer serialy?

thank sall.

Mike Green

The USB Servo Controller is not a Stamp and can't be programmed with the Basic Stamp Editor. They both contain a microprocessor, but the USB Servo Controller has a program in it that controls servos based on serial character streams defined in its documentation. The Stamp has a program in it that's an interpreter for Parallax Basic. It also has an EEPROM on the module that stores the compiled Basic program. Both the servo control program and the Basic interpreter are proprietary to Parallax. It's theoretically possible to replace the program in the microprocessor, but then you wouldn't have a servo controller or Basic interpreter.

Chris Savage

I’m not clear on why you ignored pop-ups to install new hardware. If they came up then the PC shouldn’t recognize the hardware anyway. Mike is correct; it is not a BASIC Stamp and cannot be programmed as such. However, you should have installed the USB Drivers so you would not get the driver prompts.

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Parallax Tech Support