Sample Application Download - Basic Stamp C# Winforms App

bryan costanich

hey all,

i built a little app that allows you to send instructions to your basic stamp via the serial port. it also listens for responses (such as debug and serout).

Attached is a screen shot and two zip files. One is of the executable, if you don't have visual studio 2005 and/or don't care about the code. note that you must have the .net 2.0 runtime installed to run it (available from update.microsoft.com). the other is the winforms project/solution and files.

if anyone is interested, i can write a quick code walk-through as well. it's all pretty well documented, but just in case. just post a reply and i will.

and thanks again to everyone for their help on my UM232R to BS2 circuitry.

enjoy,

-b

Steve Joblin

Sweet!· I do have a question though... why did you create this?· how is it different than the Debug terminal
window that is in the Parallax IDE?· I mean no disrespect... I am just curious...

bryan costanich

It's different in that you can use it as a base application for much more complex interaction. as it sits right now, it's not much different than the debug terminal at all, but it comes from an application that i created that does a lot more interaction. For those that wish to interact with their stamp in a programmatic way that isn't quite possible with the debugger window, then this is a base for them. For instance, if you wanted to graph in real-time, the output from the stamp, you can start with this application and add a graph control fairly easily. if you wanted a set of specific commands to be sent to the basic stamp, you could very easily add buttons to this application that sent the stamp those instructions.

if you're just doing debugging, you can just as easily use the debug window.