Hi there everybody
I just founded out that I have a BASIC Stamp board lying in my house, and I start to think about starting a project that involve this board. But the problem is can Pd actually be embedded in a BASIC Stamp? Or if not, can it be embedded in an ARduino board? I've noticed that there's PdA (Pure Data Anywhere). Can this be used for my project?
Thank you all :)
Adityo Pratomo wrote:
Hi there everybody
I just founded out that I have a BASIC Stamp board lying in my house, and I start to think about starting a project that involve this board. But the problem is can Pd actually be embedded in a BASIC Stamp? Or if not, can it be embedded in an ARduino board? I've noticed that there's PdA (Pure Data Anywhere). Can this be used for my project?
Both the Stamp and the Arduino have insufficient program memory to run Pd, even with no gui. They are best suited for I/O with a serial connection to Pd via [comport]. Also the Stamp can't wait for serial input while doing some other task, so it works better as an input device. The Stamp is much slower than the Arduino since it must interpret Basic tokens at runtime while the Arduino directly executes the machine code resulting from compiling a higher level language.
So if your project involves something like reading sensors or activating motors or lights, they are both good for that, whether or not you have some higher level of control or display implemented on a desktop/laptop.
Martin
Hmm, just like I think before..how about the PdA? What's the minum memory to run this? I've seen it implemented in iPod.
On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 11:25 PM, Martin Peach martin.peach@sympatico.cawrote:
Adityo Pratomo wrote:
Hi there everybody
I just founded out that I have a BASIC Stamp board lying in my house, and I start to think about starting a project that involve this board. But the problem is can Pd actually be embedded in a BASIC Stamp? Or if not, can it be embedded in an ARduino board? I've noticed that there's PdA (Pure Data Anywhere). Can this be used for my project?
Both the Stamp and the Arduino have insufficient program memory to run Pd, even with no gui. They are best suited for I/O with a serial connection to Pd via [comport]. Also the Stamp can't wait for serial input while doing some other task, so it works better as an input device. The Stamp is much slower than the Arduino since it must interpret Basic tokens at runtime while the Arduino directly executes the machine code resulting from compiling a higher level language.
So if your project involves something like reading sensors or activating motors or lights, they are both good for that, whether or not you have some higher level of control or display implemented on a desktop/laptop.
Martin
Adityo Pratomo wrote:
Hmm, just like I think before..how about the PdA? What's the minum memory to run this? I've seen it implemented in iPod.
According to http://gige.xdv.org/pda/ you need to be able to run linux on the device. Something like the ARM processor is a much more powerful processor than the 8-bit microcontrollers used in the Stamp and Arduino. I'd guess you probably need at least 128MB of RAM or flash to run linux, which is a thousand times more than an Arduino's 128kB of flash. The Stamp only has 3kB for its program.
Martin
On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 11:25 PM, Martin Peach wrote:
Adityo Pratomo wrote: Hi there everybody I just founded out that I have a BASIC Stamp board lying in my house, and I start to think about starting a project that involve this board. But the problem is can Pd actually be embedded in a BASIC Stamp? Or if not, can it be embedded in an ARduino board? I've noticed that there's PdA (Pure Data Anywhere). Can this be used for my project? Both the Stamp and the Arduino have insufficient program memory to run Pd, even with no gui. They are best suited for I/O with a serial connection to Pd via [comport]. Also the Stamp can't wait for serial input while doing some other task, so it works better as an input device. The Stamp is much slower than the Arduino since it must interpret Basic tokens at runtime while the Arduino directly executes the machine code resulting from compiling a higher level language. So if your project involves something like reading sensors or activating motors or lights, they are both good for that, whether or not you have some higher level of control or display implemented on a desktop/laptop. Martin
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