May 2007
Intermediate to advanced
190 pages
7h 58m
English
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Propeller Chip
BASIC STAMP’S CHIP GRACEY PUTS A NEW SPIN ON MICROCONTROLLERS.
The head guy at Parallax, Chip Gracey, is truly self-taught, which means that he has had to find his own way. Twenty years after teaching himself to program the first generation of personal computers, the creator of the new Propeller microcontroller still speaks with the enthusiasm and amazement of a bright teenager: “The tools are out there. These days with the internet, it is so easy; you can learn anything. What used to be obscure stuff that only a few people were interested in — well, today those people put it on the net to share among themselves, and the rest of us have access to it.”
Lately he’s been “playing around” with speech synthesis. “I’ve ...