Can the code for the Prop Backpack run on any Prop board?
Buck Rogers
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Hello!
I am currently working out the particulars for a new project, and it looks to be involving both a BS2 and the Prop backpack. Before I commit to buying a Prop backpack, I am interested in seeing if its possible to convince or confuse for example the Prop Activity Board that is here to pinch hit for the backpack, that of receiving serial data from the Stamp and translating it into display data on an appropriate display device.
I have not done anything yet, about all I am doing is evaluating how the Stamp should receive data to send to the backpack for display. That is what parts are involved and how they are wired to the Stamp.
Most of these decisions are based on my efforts with the Basic Stamp and the LCD [Alphanumeric] display that's here already.
Since I am quite certain that I only knew a few particulars about the Prop, and plenty about the Basic Stamp, I figured I'd float this over everyone, which is why its here in the general area.
I am currently working out the particulars for a new project, and it looks to be involving both a BS2 and the Prop backpack. Before I commit to buying a Prop backpack, I am interested in seeing if its possible to convince or confuse for example the Prop Activity Board that is here to pinch hit for the backpack, that of receiving serial data from the Stamp and translating it into display data on an appropriate display device.
I have not done anything yet, about all I am doing is evaluating how the Stamp should receive data to send to the backpack for display. That is what parts are involved and how they are wired to the Stamp.
Most of these decisions are based on my efforts with the Basic Stamp and the LCD [Alphanumeric] display that's here already.
Since I am quite certain that I only knew a few particulars about the Prop, and plenty about the Basic Stamp, I figured I'd float this over everyone, which is why its here in the general area.
Comments
-Phil
Yes that will work. Oddly enough one of us read our discussion and then PM'ed me with an interesting offer. I decided to take it.
Hello!
To familiarize myself with the backpack I promptly went over the documentation on it. [It's been ordered and even paid for from the individual.] I'm impressed Phil Pilgrim (PhiPi). Just plain impressed. The description of how the whole thing works, and what it does to display video, made me think of this book, http://www.amazon.com/TV-Typewriter-Cookbook-Don-Lancaster/dp/0672213133/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1393827624&sr=1-1&keywords=tv+typewriter+cookbook when Don wrote it computers were in their infancy.
And obviously displaying video data from the systems available to the hobbyist then was rather difficult if not almost impossible.
In the book Don explains the steps to put a block of text on the screen. Your efforts track his.
We'll see if even I can properly relate to the information in the documents for it and manage even half as well before launching into my big idea.
-Phil