Experimenters, students, and hobbyists can start with one of four types of BASIC Stamp Programming Kits. The BASIC Stamp Discovery Kit ($160), for example, comes with a software manual and the “What's ...

Before the Arduino, there was the Parallax Basic Stamp. It was an easy-to-use PIC chip on a PCB that you programmed in BASIC — a story of those humble beginnings was published earlier this week ...