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Re: Basic Stamp Replacement Question

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Originally Posted by Nate Smith
Any recommendations?
I haven't used it myself, but you could look into PICBASIC - it's more or less a PBASIC compiler for Microchip PICs. The compiler is not free unfortunately, but once you have your application compiled then the per-unit cost would only be that of the PIC, which is substantially cheaper than a BASIC Stamp. Depending on your volume this might be an option.

I'm not sure if there's a single PICBASIC or if there's different implementations or what, but the user manual for this indicates that it supports the 'freqout' and X10 commands from PBASIC.