communicating with the Basic Stamp from the PC

ghogsett

I have a BOE Stamp board. I also use the serial to USB adaptor. How would I communicate from an app on the PC (say, in C++, or something) to the Basic Stamp?
Tnx,
Jerry W6PPK

Mike Green

You need to 1) Be able to select a serial (USB) port and configure it for Baud, # bits, etc. 2) Send and receive data via the serial port.

The Stamp I/O is either done with DEBUGIN / DEBUG or with SEROUT/SERIN 16,...

If you don't know how to set up and use a serial port on a PC with your language of choice, you'll need to learn how to do so elsewhere. There are some existing apps for communications with a Stamp like StampPlot Pro from Selmaware. Sometimes that's enough to get the data onto the PC.

ghogsett

That's what I needed. Thanks a bunch.
Jerry

sdy

This article show how to do itin Visual basic 6. Your USB port is mapped to some COM port, like COM5, or something, but you talk to it like a serial port. Doing it in C++ is hard, becuase you have to set up a callback function when the sreial port is recieved. You It's usually done by multi-threading. Launch a thread that waits on the serial port buffer. VB6 is easier.