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Dave a starter kit may not be the best route if you have some degree of
electronics skills and just want to get your feet wet and see if you like
stamping (you will).
I personally breadboard experiments, then build circuits and program and
debug in-circuit.
The software is a free download from
http://www.parallaxinc.com/
same goes for the manual (pdf format, print odd # pages, then flip them over
and print even# pages)
as for the cables see
http://www.qsl.net/kf4haz/cables/stamps/
So getting started could cost as little as the price of a BS1 IC and maybe
one or more of the BS2's
happy stamping,
KF4HAZ - Lonnie
Original Message
From: "Dave Kuhn" <dkuhn@
> I am just wondering of their BasicStamps Works kit wouldn't be my best
route?
> I would hope that I can do what I want to do after investing $350 in it.
I
> can see it would be a lot of fun. Maybe even control a battlebot someday
much
> more cheaply than buying those comercial motor controllers? But that is
getting
> way off my project at hand. Maybe that $350 kit has a lot in it that
would
> never get used?
>
> I see that Jameco sells a BS2 Starter kit & board for about $150.00.
Don't
> know what a display and keypad/encoder would cost.
>
> Thanks kindly,
>
> Dave
electronics skills and just want to get your feet wet and see if you like
stamping (you will).
I personally breadboard experiments, then build circuits and program and
debug in-circuit.
The software is a free download from
http://www.parallaxinc.com/
same goes for the manual (pdf format, print odd # pages, then flip them over
and print even# pages)
as for the cables see
http://www.qsl.net/kf4haz/cables/stamps/
So getting started could cost as little as the price of a BS1 IC and maybe
one or more of the BS2's
happy stamping,
KF4HAZ - Lonnie
Original Message
From: "Dave Kuhn" <dkuhn@
> I am just wondering of their BasicStamps Works kit wouldn't be my best
route?
> I would hope that I can do what I want to do after investing $350 in it.
I
> can see it would be a lot of fun. Maybe even control a battlebot someday
much
> more cheaply than buying those comercial motor controllers? But that is
getting
> way off my project at hand. Maybe that $350 kit has a lot in it that
would
> never get used?
>
> I see that Jameco sells a BS2 Starter kit & board for about $150.00.
Don't
> know what a display and keypad/encoder would cost.
>
> Thanks kindly,
>
> Dave