Thread: Stamp or PIC?
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Re: Stamp or PIC?

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Originally Posted by KenWittlief
actually a Basic Stamp board contains a PIC chip - I dont know if you can reprogram them to run assembly or C.
The BasicStamp1 and the BS2 both ran off of PICs, but everything after that used Scenix microcontrollers. The Scenix chips can be, themselves, programmed in ASM or C, but the BasicStamps can't.

If you google for something like "pic programmer", you'll come up with a good amount of results. The NOPPP (NO Parts PIC Programmer) was interesting, but there're many other possibilities for DIY programmers, as has been said.
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