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[RhetoricalRuvim]

I saw this other thread about programming a robot from Android, and I got reminded of my high school's robotics club.

We have Parallax Boe-Bot type of robots, and we use PBASIC to program them. Though the memory size of the robot's processor is only 2 KB, from what I remember of what the teacher told me. Also it would have been nice if I could use another language to program one of those.

So I'm just wondering, is there a way to control those from wireless?

[TkTech]

Sure, lots of different ways. Depending on which kit your school got, it's already got an infrared receiver which would allow you to control it with a remote.
If you mean something a bit more robust like true WiFi, Bluetooth, or hobby RF controller, also sure.

Because the STAMP has an extremely limited amount of RAM (32 bytes) and EEPROM (2KB) you're extremely limited in how you can do it, however. You do not have enough room for the logic required to drive an interface directly. The BASIC Stamp 2 has two serial pins (TX and RX), which can be used to communicate with other hardware which can do this for you instead. I recommend you look into getting a couple of XBee modules. You'll find tutorials for using them with a BASIC Stamp on the parallax forums.