Activity #4: Your First Program - Parallax Boe-Bot Student Manual

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To make sure your BASIC Stamp is communicating with your computer, click
the Run menu, then select Identify.
An Identification window similar to the one shown in Figure 1-33 will appear. The
example in the figure shows that a BASIC Stamp 2 has been detected on COM2.
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Check the Identification window to make sure a BASIC Stamp 2 has been
detected on one of the COM ports. If the BASIC Stamp 2 has been detected,
then you are ready for Activity #4: Your First Program.
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If the Identification window does not detect a BASIC Stamp 2 on any of the
COM ports, go to page 301 (Appendix A: PC to BASIC Stamp Communication
Trouble-Shooting).

ACTIVITY #4: YOUR FIRST PROGRAM

The first program you will write and test will tell the BASIC Stamp to send a message to
your PC or laptop. Figure 1-34 shows how the BASIC Stamp sends a stream of ones and
zeros to communicate the text characters displayed by the PC or laptop. These ones and
zeros are called binary numbers. The BASIC Stamp Editor software has the ability to
detect and display these messages as you will soon see.
Figure 1-32
BASIC
Stamp Editor
Figure 1-33
Identification
Window
Example: BASIC
Stamp 2 found on
COM2.