Friday, February 23, 2007

ZX-24a

It has been a while since my last post so I figured I better get adding stuff to this site. I have been messing with my Parallax BS2 microcontroller for a few weeks now and have realized is has some serious limitations. For example, it is not capable of multi-tasking. As a result of this and it's archaic/clunky programming language I have decided to look elsewhere.

I came across a different, which uses a subset of Visual Basic. The stamp is a ZX-24a. It has some serious capabilities compared to the BS2 and is well worth the extra few dollars. I ordered one and it will be here next week sometime.

The website of the manufacturer is ZBasic.net. The language is very different than pbasic. It is well worth looking into and I think I will be very glad I got one for my robot.

Oh the ZX-24a is 100% compatible with the BS2, meaning it will work in a BS2 socket without any modifications.

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