Sending data from eb500 to PC

k

Sorry, we're new at microcontroller programming. We need some guidance. I was reading the eb500 manual. The code in the manual allows the eb500 to send "Hello World" five times to a PC hyperterminal. Is there a way for the eb500 to read a text file and have that sent? The text file just contains two columns, like:

0.029999999329 -0.025000000373
0.035000000149 -0.025000000373
0.039999999106 -0.021874999627
...
...
...

Thanks in advance for any info.

Mike Green

The EB500 is just a "data hose". To the Stamp or other microcontroller, it provides a serial channel through which the microcontroller can send pretty much any stream of characters or other 8-bit data (and receive the same). To the PC, the Bluetooth channel also looks like a standard serial channel (COM port). The EB500 itself has no provisions to be able to "read a text file". That would be the responsibility of the microcontroller connected to it. Parallax does sell a device (the Memory Stick Datalogger) which can be directed to read a file from a USB Memory Stick drive and supply the contents of that file to a microcontroller a few bytes at a time. The microcontroller can turn around and send that data out to an EB500.