Microcontroller Projects with Basic Stamps [With CD-ROM]

by Al Williams

Book Overview

Basic Stamp is the brand name of a chip that is widely used in the prototyping of microcontrollers - the brains of electronic devices. This manual teaches the principles and processes of... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0879305878
• ISBN13: 9780879305871
• Release Date: January 1999
• Publisher: R & D Books
• Length: 300 Pages
• Weight: 2.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 7.4" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

Better than the Basic Stamp Manual

This book is much better than the regular Stamp manual. It starts out explaining how everything works and then covers each of the commands by function which is a great idea (instead of alphabetizing them). After that the author shows you how things work by bringing you through a series of projects. Unlike some books most of these projects are simple enough to breadboard in 10 or 15 minutes. There are a few projects that are more complicated at the end so you can get some feel for how do do a real design too (like the morese code keyer that has a pcb). The projects make sense and illustrate specific topics. There are some games, a capacitance meter, a logic probe, an A/D converter. The book is probably meant as a text book (it has exercises at the end of the chapters) but I found it great for self study (the answers are in the back).The information on the PIC is helpful and I have even starting programming PICs as a result of reading this book (it comes with plans to make a Stamp-based PIC programmer).