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Posted Feb 03, 2012 at 2:23 pm
Figure 1
The Basic Stamp Computer is based on 12 Parallax BASIC Stamp microcontrollers wherein the hardware/software clustered parallel processing is made by fully connecting the components.
The resulting project is very portable although it consists of 11 pushbutton switches and 11 toggle switches and it can be dismantled easily. English and Chinese voice (EMIC TTS board) are used to communicate with the BASIC Stamp computer. Other components used are the infrared, LCD, tiny uOLED color monitor, 176 ports, Vibra Tab Mass detector, 12 speakers for vision sound, 21 LEDs, PIR motion sensor, ultrasonics, and temperature chip.
For various configurations, the individual BASIC Stamps are able to switch ON and OFF as it works with all types of batteries. All the boards and sensors are drawing 311mA at 9VDC while 11 programs are running in parallel where multiple sensors are controlled simultaneously. Based on the displayed colors, the uOLED can be programmed to consume less current. The software contains a built-in Supercomputer Self Diagnostic SSD wherein a piezo speaker provides check data from an alternate and the LED array bus bar lights a single LED data light for each of the working computers at startup.
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