new hardware

[Dave Houston]

This looks like it might be of interest for DIY HA.

http://www.comfiletech.com/index.asp?PageAction=VIEWCATS&Category=3

[Dave Houston]

I've skimmed through part of the manual. This is really powerful. It's pin
compatible with the BasicStamp2 and BasicX-24 but blows both away in terms
of speed & performance (ATMega128 based) and only costs $34. It's a bit
light on EEPROM but has I²C and SPI so adding EEPROM is simple.

Their touchscreen is a bit pricey for B/W but has built-in graphics
libraries. And it looks like it would be easy to interface with an ezLCD-02
color touchscreen.

nobody@whocares.com (Dave Houston) wrote:

>This looks like it might be of interest for DIY HA.
>
>http://www.comfiletech.com/index.asp?PageAction=VIEWCATS&Category=3

[RoughRider]

Very slick. Thanks for posting it.

RF Dude.

[Dave Houston]

I made one mistake. The latest version of the BX-24 (BX-24p) is faster.

"RoughRider" <Post@thisnewsgroup.com> wrote:

>Very slick. Thanks for posting it.
>
>RF Dude.
>

[Marc F Hult]

And the new "BX-24-compatible" now shipping from Zbasic.net is twice as fast
and has twice the RAM and NV data memory of the latest BX-24 (BX-24p).

http://www.zbasic.net/ZX24.php?osCsid=f110f646002aa1f8c82a32fb0b3ba1a0

Unlike the offerings from www.comfiletech.com that Dave helpfully references
(neat stuff !) the Zbasic devices from zbasic.net (also available as 40-pin
and 44-pin with more I/O) are designed to be _code_ compatible with
Netmedia's BasicX language used by the BX-24 and BX-24p -- not just pin
compatible like Basic Stamp and Comfile Technology's CUBLOC.

The Atmel ATMega32-based Zbasic offerings still only have one hardware UART
(although software UARTS are improved). CUBLOC uses ATMega128 with two
hardware UARTs which can significantly simplify programming and reduces the
potential for comm (RS-xxx) errors. Both have plenty of speed for most
embedded HA apps IMO.

HTH ... Marc
Marc_F_Hult
www.Econtrol.org


On Wed, 04 Jan 2006 12:42:34 GMT, nobody@whocares.com (Dave Houston) wrote
in message <43bcc1f2.1657780140@nntp.fuse.net>:

>I made one mistake. The latest version of the BX-24 (BX-24p) is faster.
>
>"RoughRider" <Post@thisnewsgroup.com> wrote:
>
>>Very slick. Thanks for posting it.
>>
>>RF Dude.
>>