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Re: Swerve Drive

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Originally Posted by Joe Johnson View Post
To use the STAMP2 you had to get into the PBASIC Zen Mode. It was all unsigned 16 bit math and it tooks some discipline to keep from hosing yourself. I can recall pulling my hair out trying to count/balance/place the nested parens (which I eventually gave up on -- I memorized the evaluation order of operators and basically kept parens down to the absolute minimum - took some doing but it was a time and bug saver in the end)

As to being glad to see the STAMP2 in the rear view mirror? You bet. It was some much easier to do things like scale a joystick using signed math. Oh and the PIC chip was many many times faster, more memory for variables, more code space (remember program slots? Ugh! that was painful).

Joe J.

This makes me glad I only ever used the PIC based stuff.
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