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ArchiverArchiver Posts: 46,084
edited 2003-08-30 03:25 in General Discussion
Hello all

Any ideas in speech recognination ?? with basic stamp?
and any sites where i can get applications of BASIC STAMP?
and ideas of interfacing the basic stamp with the·computer and use the computer to exectue commands and let it trigger the moters in the basic stamp directly..
Macx

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  • ArchiverArchiver Posts: 46,084
    edited 2000-12-23 20:49
    Look at:
    http://library.thinkquest.org/16497/projects/breadboard/index.html
    ACJacques

    Cy Brown wrote:
    >
    > Just wanted to say hello to you all and introduce myself. My name is Cy
    > Brown and I live down south in Natchitoches Louisiana. I work for an ISP
    > and administer the Lan and Wan there. My good friend gave me a basic stamp
    > starter kit for Christmass and so far its been a blast. I will try to avoid
    > asking really stupid questions but if I do please forgive me.
    >
    > Speaking of stupid questions.....
    > I have the Board of Education here and its all working fine but can someone
    > tell me how the white plastic section full of holes is used?
    >
    > Thanks
    > Cy Brown
    > www.pasqualy.com
  • ArchiverArchiver Posts: 46,084
    edited 2000-12-23 21:49
    Just wanted to say hello to you all and introduce myself. My name is Cy
    Brown and I live down south in Natchitoches Louisiana. I work for an ISP
    and administer the Lan and Wan there. My good friend gave me a basic stamp
    starter kit for Christmass and so far its been a blast. I will try to avoid
    asking really stupid questions but if I do please forgive me.

    Speaking of stupid questions.....
    I have the Board of Education here and its all working fine but can someone
    tell me how the white plastic section full of holes is used?

    Thanks
    Cy Brown
    www.pasqualy.com
  • ArchiverArchiver Posts: 46,084
    edited 2000-12-26 01:04
    Ha! That's a good one. Haven't head that before. Don't worry you'll learn.
    Most people refer to that as a "bread-board" - maybe because of the holes
    ... I don't know. Anyway, the holes are connected in rows. It allows you to
    plug in components - resistors, capacitors, ICs, LEDs, etc., etc. and test
    circuits.
    -William



    Original Message
    From: Cy Brown <bushman@t...>
    To: <basicstamps@egroups.com>
    Sent: Saturday, December 23, 2000 4:49 PM
    Subject: [noparse][[/noparse]basicstamps] Hello all


    > Just wanted to say hello to you all and introduce myself. My name is Cy
    > Brown and I live down south in Natchitoches Louisiana. I work for an ISP
    > and administer the Lan and Wan there. My good friend gave me a basic
    stamp
    > starter kit for Christmass and so far its been a blast. I will try to
    avoid
    > asking really stupid questions but if I do please forgive me.
    >
    > Speaking of stupid questions.....
    > I have the Board of Education here and its all working fine but can
    someone
    > tell me how the white plastic section full of holes is used?
    >
    > Thanks
    > Cy Brown
    > www.pasqualy.com
    >
    >
    >
    >
    >
  • ArchiverArchiver Posts: 46,084
    edited 2000-12-26 18:00
    Question? Is it recommended to use a capacitor between V+ and Gnd like in a
    normal microprocessor?
  • ArchiverArchiver Posts: 46,084
    edited 2003-08-30 03:20
    I found this group just the other day and joined. I have known about basic
    stamps for
    quite a while but never had an opportunity to have a need to try one. Well a
    few weeks
    ago I did. I am a Engineering Maint. Supervisor for a CBS affilate TV station.
    We needed to
    come up with a "cheap" way of making an automated "second" channel on our
    HD/ATSC
    stream using some sort of automation. I needed a way to emulate a "human"
    hitting a
    take button on a video switcher. We have Pro-Bel TX 420 systems. ( 3 ). The
    guy at pro-
    bel recommended a basic stamp to do the job.. I jumped on it since I always
    wanted to
    play with one.. So I bought a BS2 and the board ( starter kit ).. I have been
    fiddling around
    since last Tuesday and since I'M NOT A PROGRAMMER I started to get a little
    frustrated!!
    In college I learned assembly for 8080's and Z80's and enough Fortran and Turbo
    Pascal to
    be REALLY dangerous! [noparse]:)[/noparse]

    So I found this group and thought I would be asking stupid newbie questions, but
    low and
    behold this afternoon, I MADE IT WORK!! These things are so cool..

    Basically what I need to do is upon power up, send a hex string to the
    automation port
    saying "hey, automation is alive and well.."..

    Send a reminder every 20 seconds or so, "hey, I'm still here"..

    Have a contact closure from another device trigger the stamp to spit out FF 01
    hex that
    tells the switcher to hit the take button when called for..

    I actually got this working and It made my Friday afternoon!!

    I will probably ask some stupid newbie questions since I see a LOT of
    possibilites for these
    things in the broadcast tv world..

    If there are any other TV engineers here that have used these I would like to
    hear what you
    did with them. I see anything from camera controls ( pan, tilt, zoom ) to
    remote controls
    using rs-422 sony protocols.. and more.. Again we have Pro-Bel 420's and the
    protocol is
    pretty simple..

    Just wanted to say hi to the group and this is gonna be cool..

    Alan
  • ArchiverArchiver Posts: 46,084
    edited 2003-08-30 03:25
    Welcome to the group and the world of BASIC Stamps, Alan. I used a BS2
    a couple years ago to create a silence monitor for radio stations [noparse][[/noparse]I was
    contracted to do the job prior to working for Parallax]. The project
    served as a remote alert in the event of too much "dead air."

    Have fun. You'll find lots of very friendly, very helpful folks
    participating in this group.

    -- Jon Williams
    -- Applications Engineer, Parallax
    -- Dallas Office


    Original Message
    From: vintonalan [noparse]/noparse]mailto:[url=http://forums.parallaxinc.com/group/basicstamps/post?postID=yrwyeDVZUvVXSMlGJqh639VzhCCIGq026XXWJ6jwf3odsopQjP30j2NsUk7S2Ta2CLHkS2NacYZh]alann19@c...[/url
    Sent: Friday, August 29, 2003 9:20 PM
    To: basicstamps@yahoogroups.com
    Subject: [noparse][[/noparse]basicstamps] Hello All


    I found this group just the other day and joined. I have known about
    basic stamps for
    quite a while but never had an opportunity to have a need to try one.
    Well a few weeks
    ago I did. I am a Engineering Maint. Supervisor for a CBS affilate TV
    station. We needed to
    come up with a "cheap" way of making an automated "second" channel on
    our HD/ATSC
    stream using some sort of automation. I needed a way to emulate a
    "human" hitting a
    take button on a video switcher. We have Pro-Bel TX 420 systems. ( 3 ).
    The guy at pro- bel recommended a basic stamp to do the job.. I jumped
    on it since I always wanted to
    play with one.. So I bought a BS2 and the board ( starter kit ).. I
    have been fiddling around
    since last Tuesday and since I'M NOT A PROGRAMMER I started to get a
    little frustrated!! In college I learned assembly for 8080's and Z80's
    and enough Fortran and Turbo Pascal to
    be REALLY dangerous! [noparse]:)[/noparse]

    So I found this group and thought I would be asking stupid newbie
    questions, but low and
    behold this afternoon, I MADE IT WORK!! These things are so cool..

    Basically what I need to do is upon power up, send a hex string to the
    automation port
    saying "hey, automation is alive and well.."..

    Send a reminder every 20 seconds or so, "hey, I'm still here"..

    Have a contact closure from another device trigger the stamp to spit out
    FF 01 hex that
    tells the switcher to hit the take button when called for..

    I actually got this working and It made my Friday afternoon!!

    I will probably ask some stupid newbie questions since I see a LOT of
    possibilites for these
    things in the broadcast tv world..

    If there are any other TV engineers here that have used these I would
    like to hear what you
    did with them. I see anything from camera controls ( pan, tilt, zoom )
    to remote controls
    using rs-422 sony protocols.. and more.. Again we have Pro-Bel 420's
    and the protocol is
    pretty simple..

    Just wanted to say hi to the group and this is gonna be cool..

    Alan



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