Interfaceing the basic stamp with a pc.

MMISCOOL · 2006-10-20 03:54

I wood like to be able to send and retreive data from the basic stamp wile the stamp is conected to the computer via rs232 and was wonderin wether there wood be an ez was of using the debeugin and out comands with a peice of software on the computer. My favorite computere prograing language is liberty basic and I wood like for someone who has done something like this to posible help me with the code on the pc and stamp side. **excuse spelling errors

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Mike Green · 2006-10-20 04:05

Look at Martin Hebel's StampPlot Pro (<www.selmaware.com>). Other than that, the DEBUG/DEBUGIN statements just do conventional serial I/O at 9600 Baud and pretty much any program on the PC that can speak 9600 Baud 8-bit serial I/O can communicate with the Stamp. You'll have to figure out how to do that on the PC side if you're not already familiar with it. The PBasic manual pretty thoroughly talks about the DEBUG/DEBUGIN side.

Martin Hebel · 2006-10-20 04:11

StampPlot is a good application for interfacing with the BASIC Stamp (since that's what it was made to do [noparse]:)[/noparse]

The BASIC Stamp can be used to configure and read the interface. For example, the following code will create a slider StampPlot then use it to update a variable for playing a tone:

' {$STAMP BS2}
' {$PBASIC 2.5}

PAUSE 1000                     'allow connection to stablize
Freq VAR Word

DEBUG "!NEWP", CR,         ' start a new plot
      "!O Clear",CR,             ' clear any objects
      "!PPER 50,50",CR,        ' reduce plot area to 50% by 50%
      "!O ohslider.freq=30,40",CR   'create a slider named Freq at 30 left, 40 up, 0- 100 for range

DO
  DEBUG "!READ (freq)",CR       ' request value of slider
  DEBUGIN DEC Freq                ' accept returning value
  FREQOUT 8, 200, Freq * 50     ' sound tone on P8
LOOP

StampPlot may be used for Free for home and educational use.
www.stampplot.com

If you want to create your own software, you simply need to access the serial port and accept and send values.

-Martin

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Martin Hebel
Personal Links with plenty of BASIC Stamp info
StampPlot - Graphical Data Acquisition and Control
AppBee - XBee ZigBee / IEEE 802.15.4 Adapters & Devices

Sutton Murray · 2006-10-22 08:58

For a more controlled own written program from the computer. Look at this link from Shaun Wilson http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Orchard/6633/vb5.html. Some great samples to learn the interfacing

kdw-be · 2006-10-22 10:35

Hey,

I have found software that can communicate with a Basic Stamp and store the data in an Excel or Acces file.

You can find the software on http://www.windmill.co.uk/

Has anywone has some experience with this software?

Greetings

Interfaceing the basic stamp with a pc.

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