whats a stamp

[amos229]

i need help. whats a stamp and whats it do

[JVN]

i need help. whats a stamp and whats it do

You put it on envelopes, to pay for mailing them. ;)

Or were you talking about a different type (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stamping)of stamp (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BASIC_Stamp)?

[Conor Ryan]

i need help. whats a stamp and whats it do

John's got the other few types of stamps, I'm not sure if you've heard about it or not, but theres a STAMP (http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/showthread.php?t=39828&highlight=STAMP) (Statistical Team Analysis of Match Performance) scouting system out there for FRC too.

[bear24rw]

I think he means somthing like the Basic Stamp...

http://www.parallax.com/detail.asp?product_id=BS2-IC

[Rickertsen2]

I'm assuming you mean a basic stamp. A basic stamp is a magical chip made by a company called parallax. Think of it as a black box with inputs and outputs and you can program it to do whatever you want. It is programmed in BASIC. Stamps used to be the heart of the controllers that we used, but the newer model controller uses a PIC instead of a stamp.

Stamps are pretty nifty for hobby projects but are pretty expensive at a price of $20 for the lowest end models all the way up to about $100. PICs by comparison are only a few bucks a piece and are far more powerful.

What stamps have over other microcontrollers is that they are easy. They are programmed in BASIC and need no external circuitry to make them work. If you want to know more about them, there is a wealth of info on the parallax website.