Actually Sir... I forgot to mention that this is the ARM Express (LPC2106G Stamp) and that I did spent several days trying as basic is my first language. As to the speed again, your Crystal Ball is wrong... According to all I have from Coriduim it is a 60 MHz processor (By the data sheet). It IS SUPPOSED to work anywhere a Stamp would but mine for some unknown reason will only report that it is "Alive" (If you "reset" it it does sign on...) It was a leftover part from an aborted project I did in late 2007 or early 2008 and the project wouldn't work right because of and was aborted because of a "Bug" in the reset that is similar to the one on the Arduino as I found out in mid 2009. I did miss one major detail and that it is a complied rather than interpreted language. I mentioned fan... Room Fan, Obviously, Singularly difficult to place a fan of any size on a 24 pin Chip carrier. I read what documentation there was... back in 2008, All of it. For my money today a Mega1280 would be a better use of some small money than the Now $50.00 entry level? board... Compared to the really inexpensive and more powerful devices today STM32 Discovery @17.95 or the Freescale device @ 12.95 (128KB flash, 16KB SRAM, Up to 48MHz operation, 16-Bit ADC, 12-bit DAC, Low-power Touch Sense Interface)... Oh, And a free accelerometer!!!
And as to this...
That would be 80 MHz. (20 Mhz resonator And Specc'd at 60 MHz) The BASIC interpreter is fast, but is distributed with native-code pre-written drivers for a whole range of sensors, busses, shields, and it even has networking built in and program download and firmware upgrade over the Internet. And you can debug a CoreBASIC program across the world using an internet connection. So, I think you're not open minded and are coloured by your exposure to existing products. [/quote]
None of the "Features" claimed were available then and after 5 minutes of searching herehttp://www.coridiumcorp.com/prod-specs2.html. I sadly have to report that My Arm Express isn't manufactured any more.
I think that the reason why the job was scrapped (and reborn with a PIC16C57 (Ghastly Chip I wrote the project first in Spasm and later rewrote it in Microchip assembler)... was that the sample code supplied for the device simply wouldn't work period and no one I was able to contact could tell me how to fix it... Perhaps I got the maintenance Dept by mistake.
The Unfortunate issue with offering opinions such as you did is that you have NO IDEA of what I own, my level of experience or what I did to try to make it work. I was told by the sales person that it would "Plug in and replace" a BS2 so that I would be buying a Professional Embedded Controller with the Best Possible Basic Available...
Oh and I forgot... My employer tried to get a refund on the 5 devices we bought at about $60-$70.00 Ea, We had 2 opened and the company refused to refund the money on the 2 opened ones. They claimed that I probably damaged them in handling. Oh Yeah as for drivers... there are more for a $10.00 Pro Mini... and a Much larger support group. Actually I was able to solder some of the stackable headers (big mistake) connect a FTDI board and have one running a sketch (It's Code $%#&&^$...) C and C++ Code, in about 10 minutes. All in All I am more impressed by the SLOOOW 16 MHz Arduino Uno than I was by the Coridium Express. I might point out that even without the Creative Commons nature of the product which places some extreme demands on the retail market. Anyone can make one and or buy a programmed chip and solder it into one of those really neat 830 point solderable Adafruit breadboards so as to be able to develop a complete project that even looks semi professional. This makes the only real profits to be had in the shields for the device. I did notice that there was a version that would take UNO style shields and the best flattery is to copy someone elses concept/product, The MAJOR hole in that logic is that an ARM processor won''t begin to power most Arduino shields as it is limited to 4 or 5 mA drive @3V3 DC (And are 5V tolerant). The Nice features are 131K of Flash and 64 K of Sram @ 60 MHz. My point was and is that for my purposes the device was unusable as It wouldn't/couldn't use the "Demo" software connected exactly as Coridium recommended. In my impression for the application at hand, it wasn't suitable regardless of the "Features" (Low Drive poor clock accuracy +/- 1%) were the major problems and while the Arduino has similar issues... At least the clock can be replaced with a real crystal. As I remember I thought about using the C compiler but it wasn't compliant fully with the C99 Standard and since there was "No Way to switch between the two... I kept the unused one when I retired.Bob