LCD Serial Backpack
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My grandson and I are the proud owners of two Basic Stamp 2's. One is an older one I've had for many years (mid 90's) and now a new BOE-Bot. I'd also purchased a Scott Edwards Electronics, Inc. LCD Serial Backpack, which at one time I had working (it still has the last program/desplay working on it).
A few questions:
1 - is there a way to retrieve the program stored on the BS2 so I can save it?
2 - is this OLD basic stamp able to run PBASIC 2.5? I've been holding off programming it to see if I can get the old program off.
3 - Does anyone have programming information for this LCD Backpack? The manual that came with it has comands not found in the BS2 manual.
4 - running the Identify program on my old and new stamps give the same results - Basic Stamp 2, V1.0, Yes, Yes.
Thanks for all the help.
A few questions:
1 - is there a way to retrieve the program stored on the BS2 so I can save it?
2 - is this OLD basic stamp able to run PBASIC 2.5? I've been holding off programming it to see if I can get the old program off.
3 - Does anyone have programming information for this LCD Backpack? The manual that came with it has comands not found in the BS2 manual.
4 - running the Identify program on my old and new stamps give the same results - Basic Stamp 2, V1.0, Yes, Yes.
Thanks for all the help.
Comments
2) Yes. PBasic 2.5 is actually translated into older forms of statements internally. It's just a change in the PBasic compiler, not the Stamp itself.
3) Here's one reference. Do a web search for "Scott Edwards Serial Backpack" for others.
4) Looks good. The BS2 has changed little in recent years. There are all sorts of follow-on modules with additional features like the BS2p/pe/px.
I feel better now, I'm off to google land!
Should we mark this thread as solved?