Can I do Propeller with BS experience only?

Bronson

Hi,

I am interested in Propeller chip. Is it hard for someone without any Assembly experience (only BS stamp experience) to do programming for Propeller chip?
I have been using BS stamp for approx 3 years.

Thanks,
Bronson

Martin Hebel

Hi Bronson. The Propeller can also be programmed in its own high-level language, Spin, which is sorta like BASIC, PASCAL and a few tossed together to make the ultimate programming experience [noparse]:)[/noparse] The coding is very simple.

One thing SPIN lacks is many high-end functions like SEROUT, SERIN, PULSOUT, etc., but a list of object libraries advanced functions is growing, including a BS2 Functions library which has many favorites of PBASIC. This allows you to have essentially 8 different BASIC Stamp-like cogs running at once on the propeller. All the functions are written in Spin so you may modify and tweak to your liking also!

http://www.parallax.com/propeller/object.asp

I highly recommend you take the propeller for a Spin if some things about BASIC Stamp annoy you, like trying to drive a servo and measure something at the same time, you won't be dissappointed!

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Martin Hebel
Southern Illinois University Carbondale - Electronic Systems Technologies

Personal Links with plenty of BASIC Stamp info
StampPlot - Graphical Data Acquisition and Control