building basic stamps
So these are probably extremely stupid questions, but I'm trying learn how these PIC controllers work...
If I were to build a basic stamp 2 with an PIC16C57 OTP chip and follow the rest of Parallax's schematic, would I be able to program it with PBASIC, or would I need to make some type of assember?
Anyways, I know this is a rather stupid question and it's cheaper to just buy the stamp, but if anybody has any great websites or books on this subject, that would be great!
If I were to build a basic stamp 2 with an PIC16C57 OTP chip and follow the rest of Parallax's schematic, would I be able to program it with PBASIC, or would I need to make some type of assember?
Anyways, I know this is a rather stupid question and it's cheaper to just buy the stamp, but if anybody has any great websites or books on this subject, that would be great!
Comments
Again, I understand that this is a very basic and stupid question, but I was just curious...
That's how it works, anyway. And you can't read the 16C57 to get the run-time, the PIC is pretty good about protecting that sort of thing. In fact, the PBasic run-time is about the ONLY thing Parallax hasn't fully documented. But they have to make their money somewhere, after all.
http://www.diolan.com/pic/bootloader.html
or google for "pic boot loader" the advantage of this is you have a choice of programing language C, asm or whatever, and down load your program to it like a basic stamp.
-dan