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Question PC Interfacing
I heard somewhere that It is possible to interface the Basic stamp through one of its ports (i think the dashboard port) to a PC and that one could actually outsource proscessing to the PC. I was wondering if someone could point me in the wright direction. I was basically under the understanding that one could wright code on a pc and then use the PC to read from the stamp's imputs and then send comands to it. Is this true? A little help?

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Only partially right..
YES, you can connect a PC to the dashboard port and read back certain values from the RC->OI data stream. However, you have no (legal) way to send data back to the OI.
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Not even sure if you would want to use a PC in the scheme shown since you would have the delay of the wireless interface.

A better bet would be to offload some computation to a second microprocessor through the programming port, similar to what allot of teams did this year for positional data. Search for interfacing to second micro.
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Are you looking for a solution that is legal to use on a competition robot, or just something to mess around with?

Rob Bayer wrote a program that will control the robot via PC. http://robbayer.com/robocon.shtml

If you are looking for something that is competition legal, you will need to buy a microprocessor/SBC from digikey or future active. You can then interface the two through the programming port.
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Are you looking to connect the PC to the OI or RC?
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