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Thinking of using PINK with SX28 / SX48 (SX/B) to communicate with PC and VB6 o

T&E EngineerT&E Engineer Posts: 1,396
edited 2009-02-06 17:28 in General Discussion
I did·a search and did not find any SX/B examples of how to use the PINK card. The Parallax site only has examples for the Basic Stamp 2 - which I probably could convert over but wanted to see what is available that I may not know about. I want to send high speed data from a PC to an SX controlling a very large LED indoor/outdoor single color display sign. I am looking at doing this either hopefully with an SX or possibly an AVR chipset like the Arduino depending on what is available - but not thrilled about learning the C like language that the Arduino uses.

Thanks.

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  • Chris SavageChris Savage Parallax Engineering Posts: 14,406
    edited 2009-02-06 17:28
    Timothy,

    The PINK Module is just a serial interface module. You can set the baud rate it uses for host communication via its web interface. Essentially you’re reading and writing to registers that store up to 64 bytes of data. This data could be displayed on a web page, sent to/from the host microcontroller or used for sending e-mail and UDP messages. Given that it is basically just a serial interface you shouldn’t have too much trouble using the BASIC Stamp code as a reference. If you have specific questions we can address them here in this thread. Take care.

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