Parallax 28152

What's a Microcontroller?

Parts Kit and Text

The What's a Microcontroller Parts & Text kit is the perfect way to get started building circuits and writing programs with your BASIC Stamp 2 development board. If you want to learn to make your own BASIC Stamp inventions, you can learn how common components work as you go step-by-step through 40 hands-on activities in the 350-page What's a Microcontroller? text. 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.

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: LEDs, 7-segment display, servo, piezo speaker
• Passive components: resistors, capacitors, jumper wires
• Integrated circuits: digital potentiometer, transistor
• Complete components listing

Note: Completing the activities with this Parts & Text Kit requires a BASIC Stamp 2 development board option:

• Board of Education Full Kit (Serial) or (USB) which includes a BASIC Stamp 2 module
• BASIC Stamp HomeWork Board (available only as 10-packs)

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