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Connecting two boards together

JoAnn WildsJoAnn Wilds Posts: 1
edited 2013-10-15 18:44 in BASIC Stamp
Can you combine two boards to run off of one program?

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  • msrobotsmsrobots Posts: 3,709
    edited 2013-10-15 14:46
    I guess you can't.

    Each Board need a own program, but they can communicate with each other thru for example serial coms.

    Enjoy!

    Mike
  • Chris SavageChris Savage Parallax Engineering Posts: 14,406
    edited 2013-10-15 15:12
    Correct. You cannot download a single program into two BASIC Stamp Modules at the same time. Each must have its program downloaded independently.
  • Mike GreenMike Green Posts: 23,101
    edited 2013-10-15 18:44
    The important question is why would you want to do that? Do you need more I/O pins? ... There are other ways to get those. Do you need more space for a bigger program? ... There are other Stamp models with multiple "slots" each of which stores a program up to 2K and these programs can transfer from one to another ... sort of like overlays ... there's no CALL / RETURN, just a JUMP from one slot to another. Do you need two boards so you can do two things at a time? ... Think about using a Propeller instead which can do 8 things at a time.
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