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From: roger034@gold.tc.umn.edu (Brynn Rogers)
Subject: Re: Need help thermometer to RS232?
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Date: Wed, 5 Oct 1994 02:29:32 GMT
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Okay, so the Motorola Eval kit is expensive ($150, though my coworker may want
to sell his used), But it has a serial port on it (UART type).  
Can you say the same for the PIC and the Basic stamp? (Isn't the stamp just
one of the PIC family?)  Or do you have to bit bang the serial port 
using IO pins? It also has the thermometer sensor on board, no need to find
one or design and build one.

For ME, I would use something like a miniboard, but if time was important,
the Moto kit would save AT LEAST ten hours work.  Which makes the Moto Kit
Very cheap compared to a PIC.

Brynn
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             Brynn Rogers                      roger034@gold.tc.umn.edu
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Autonomous robots get my interest.     Embedded systems pay my mortgage.
