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| | Build Your Own Basic Stamp |
 | | Creating the Basic Stamp was a master-stroke; being programmable in Basic meant that there was no complex assembly language to be learnt, and its construction as a single module meant it was easy to wire up and program, using a serial or parallel interface lead, and no expensive specialised device programmer. |
 | | The Basic Stamp was the forerunner, and inspiration, for many clones of the device, and many alternatives such as the Atom Microcontroller, BasicX and OOPic systems. |
 | | The original Basic stamp was a module, mainly because microcontrollers at the time it was created were very small, were not flash programmable, didn't have onboard EEPROM and so an external memory chip had to be used. |
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