New to Basic Stamp1 n Stamp2

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I am new to using the Stamp1 and Stamp2. Ihave a Stamp1 now and just ordered a Stamp2. A friend of mine found a PBasic program and ask me if I could use any of the code for learning the Stamps.

Most of the code I understand. I am trying to to fully understand the serin and serout commands and flow structure.

This is the program line: (This program is for a BS1)

···· SERIN 0,N2400,(252),relay,stat

At the beginning of the program;

···· SYMBOL relay = B3
···· SYMBOL stat = B4

Then a conditional statement is checking 'If Relay=1' then a subroutine and another conditional, 'If Stat=1' then it turns a port on.

Ok, now I know the zero(0) is pin0, I believe the 'N' is for no parity, 2400 is baud rate. The (252) I think is a delay? Relay and Stat are variables. But is the BS1 looking for a certain type of data to put into 'relay' and 'stat'. Like ASCII, Decimal......Or is the variables B3 and B4 mean the numbers have to be binary?

I have order some reading material to learn more about the Stamp1 and Stamp2, but haven't received it as of yet.


Thanks in Advance.

Franklin

The stamp editor download is what you need to program stamps and comes with really good help files explaining all of this. Since relay is defined as B3, if pin 3 is higher than the point between what is seen as off then it will return a 1 otherwise it will return a 0.

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- Stephen

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Look in some of the recent posts. thiers some really good discussions on serial COM.

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