parallax board of education + parallax basic stamp BS2SX-ic

even though parallax says you don't need the usb driver, you do. it is here:
this thing

this is macbs2 for programming in pbasic on osx.

knowledge;

a basic stamp has it's own ground. when included in a circuit you sometimes use a pull down resistor to enforce the current moving through the basic stamp and not just ignoring it.

homework: serial communication via multiple basic stamps. we should probably use multiple colors of leds and pause commands to see exactly where the data is being passed.