For a lot of us, our first exposure to the world of microcontrollers was through the offerings of Parallax, Inc. Perhaps you were interested in doing something small and light, and hoping to leverage ...

This tech article is about developing a basic security entry system, a project which I undertook as a student at the University of Cincinnati, while taking the class Embedded System Design. For the ...

Back in the Before Times, when microcontroller development required ultraviolet light, building anything was a pain. You probably had to burn a ROM onto a chip with a parallel programmer, there was no ...

A family of chips and small circuit boards from Parallax, Inc., Rocklin, California that are used for myriad processing functions. For example, the BASIC Stamp 1 Interpreter Chip includes a PBASIC ...

Unlike other microcontrollers I investigated, the BASIC Stamp furnishes only a small memory space-16 words (32 bytes)-in which you can save data. The BASIC software takes six of those bytes for I/O ...