Parallax 28122

What's a Microcontroller? Parts Bundle

The What's a Microcontroller? Parts Kit provides all the electronic components needed to complete the activities in the What's a Microcontroller? text on a BASIC Stamp 2 development board.

If you want to learn to make your own BASIC Stamp inventions, learn how these common components work as you go step-by-step through 40 hands-on activities in the 350-page What's a Microcontroller? Text (available for purchase or as a free download). Side-by-side schematics and wiring diagrams give you confidence in building the circuits with the Parts Kit components on a BASIC Stamp 2 development board, and each example program is followed by a detailed explanation so you learn as you go. Here's what you will learn to do:

Features

• Build simple circuits with schematics and wiring diagrams
• Write programs in PBASIC to control the circuits
• Send signals by blinking LEDs
• Sense contact with pushbuttons
• Read a dial using a potentiometer
• Measure light with a phototransistor
• Control motion with a servo motor
• Play tunes on a piezo speaker
• Display data on a 7-segment LED
• Combine several circuits to prototype an invention

Kit Contents

• Input components: pushbuttons, single-turn potentiometer, phototransistor
• Output devices: LEDs, 7-segment display, servo, piezo speaker
• Passive components: resistors, capacitors, jumper wires
• Integrated circuits: digital potentiometer, transistor

Required Development Board (sold separately)

• Board of Education (Serial) or (USB) and a BASIC Stamp 2 module
• BASIC Stamp HomeWork Board (Serial 10-pack) or (USB single)

Complete Kit Options

• BASIC Stamp Activity Kit featuring the BASIC Stamp HomeWork Board
• BASIC Stamp Discovery Kit (Serial with USB Adapter) featuring the BS2-IC and Board of Education
• BASIC Stamp Discovery Kit (USB only) featuring the BS2-IC Board of Education

Downloads & Resources

• StampPlot Lite Software
• Micro Alarm Prototype Example Code
• Micro Music With RTTTL Example Code
• Wavelengths and their Corresponding Colors
• Servo Circuit Connections for BASIC Stamp Boards
• Expo 2012 BASIC Stamp Activity Slides
• Micro Alarm Mini Project
• BS2 Activity - Data Plotting with Excel
• Data Plotting with StampPlot Lite
• Errata for What's a Microcontroller? Text
• What's a Microcontroller? Text

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