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Basic Stamp III?

logan996logan996 Posts: 281
edited 2010-06-04 19:00 in General Discussion
I was wondering, after looking at Phil's post about the old PIC parallax floppy and looking at parallax's old web page i noticed and still notice that only 1 variation of BS1 was made! The BS2 has over ... (too lazy to go count them all but around 5 right?) differnt variations. Why didn't they just come out with the BS1-B or something? So right now I am curious if parallax is just going to keep coming out with BS2-*** chips or come out with a new BS3? that would be nice to see a BS3 along with a homework board! (and somewhere around 30,000 - 100,000 instructions per/s, plus some more features)·It would be the perfect replacement for the SX line, you guys·know what i·mean? Like·a·soulution for something that needs more juice than a BS2 but a prop being overkill!·Lastly if they do, just a suggestion but·parallax should make it so that it can be programmed with BS2 PBASIC, and maybe a new redesigned· (harder 2 learn) BS3 PBASIC, AND a·"What's a Microcontroller?" BS3 version kit!!! [noparse]:D[/noparse]

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  • logan996logan996 Posts: 281
    edited 2010-05-26 23:53
    Should this be on the BS2 fourm???

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  • sylvie369sylvie369 Posts: 1,622
    edited 2010-05-27 03:32
    I'm pretty sure that if Parallax released a BS-III, all of the people who have been clamoring impatiently for a Prop II would throw a fit.
    They'd probably unleash herds of goats to attack Parallax HQ, or something like that.
  • FranklinFranklin Posts: 4,747
    edited 2010-05-27 03:36
    Yeah, I've heard goat herders are avid techies!

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  • iDaveiDave Posts: 252
    edited 2010-05-27 05:28
    I'm gonna implant a propeller into a goat & see what happens....stay tuned.

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  • Invent-O-DocInvent-O-Doc Posts: 768
    edited 2010-06-03 02:20
    That's not a bad idea in some respects. I couple years ago I bought some Coridium ARMmite modules that have lots of ram and a generously build out version of basic. It made things very easy on me as a hobbyist. There just isn't a support community for them, though, like there are for parallax things.

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  • sylvie369sylvie369 Posts: 1,622
    edited 2010-06-03 02:35
    Invent-O-Doc said...
    That's not a bad idea in some respects. I couple years ago I bought some Coridium ARMmite modules that have lots of ram...
    It took a while for me to figure out that you're talking about the BSIII idea, and not the "implant them in goats" idea.
  • Mike GreenMike Green Posts: 23,101
    edited 2010-06-03 04:21
    Someone asked this same question (about BS3) recently and I gave my humble opinion on the subject as usual.

    I think you'll see more use of the Propeller although with more documentation similar to the tutorials for the BASIC Stamps. I think with 12Blocks, PropBasic, and Spin, there are enough tools available to present Propeller programming much the same as PBasic is presented, but with greater capabilities.
  • P!-RoP!-Ro Posts: 1,189
    edited 2010-06-03 06:17
    Also, if a BSIII were in the process of being made, Parallax would probably let us know. The only reason I can see of Parallax upgrading the Basic Stamp modules would be because the SX is no longer in production. However, they have ordered so much stock of it there really won't be too much worry for the next decade or so making worries of a BSIII somewhat obsolete.

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  • logan996logan996 Posts: 281
    edited 2010-06-03 12:50
    Yes, i guess you guys are right but i mean after the prop 2 and i ment it to be like a revision aver all the BS2 flaws like a less expensive chipset and a less complicated circut setup. Plus more power and more powerful programer basically making a BS that is better than the SX for a tad more or even the same price that is easy to program

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  • John R.John R. Posts: 1,376
    edited 2010-06-03 16:21
    The obvious question would be "why"?

    What could a BSIII do that a Prop could not?

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  • Invent-O-DocInvent-O-Doc Posts: 768
    edited 2010-06-03 18:05
    Good question. Well, I find SPIN to be hard for manipulating and parsing string data.

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  • MicrocontrolledMicrocontrolled Posts: 2,461
    edited 2010-06-03 20:58
    To access various parts of a string:
    VAR

  byte stringarray[noparse][[/noparse]100]

PUB Start  |  i

  stringarray := string("This is a test string!")
  ' Change 10th character to a "*"
  stringarray[noparse][[/noparse]10] := "*"
  ' Find "!" character
  repeat i from 0 to 100
     if stringarray[noparse][[/noparse] i ] == "!"
       quit
  return true

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  • John R.John R. Posts: 1,376
    edited 2010-06-03 22:36
    Invent-O-Doc said...
    Good question. Well, I find SPIN to be hard for manipulating and parsing string data.

    Prop Basic?

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  • logan996logan996 Posts: 281
    edited 2010-06-04 14:35
    Prop Basic is still a BEATA though and still has bugs it also only has 1 cog use, and it is differnt form PBASIC (not by a huge ton though)

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  • BradCBradC Posts: 2,601
    edited 2010-06-04 15:10
    logan996 said...
    Prop Basic is still a BEATA though and still has bugs it also only has 1 cog use

    I think you need to look at it a little bit closer.

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  • BeanBean Posts: 8,129
    edited 2010-06-04 15:14
    logan996 said...
    Prop Basic is still a BEATA though and still has bugs it also only has 1 cog use, and it is differnt form PBASIC (not by a huge ton though)
    Although I cannot say for sure that PropBasic doesn't have bugs, it IS getting very close to being released.

    PropBasic uses TASK to create code that runs in other cogs. Several of the demo programs do this. It would be pretty useless if you couldn't.

    Bean.


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  • davejamesdavejames Posts: 4,047
    edited 2010-06-04 15:41
    A "BS3" w/integrated ADCs would be nice.

    DJ

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  • Invent-O-DocInvent-O-Doc Posts: 768
    edited 2010-06-04 19:00
    @Microcontrolled,
    Thanks for the example. I remember middle school when I used Atari (800) Basic which basically treated Strings as one dimensional arrays, I guess I just need to change my mindset. Your example did make it look simple. Thanks!

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