PLX-28122 Parallax Whats a Microcontroller? Parts Kit

The What's a Microcontroller Parts Kit provides all the electronic components you need to comlete the activities in the What's a Microcontroller? text on a BASIC Stamp 2 development board. Also handy for the Propeller C - Simple Circuits Tutorial.

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

Completing the activities with this Parts 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)

Convenient complete kit options:

- BASIC Stamp Activity Kit features the BASIC Stamp HomeWork Board
- BASIC Stamp Discovery Kit (Serial with USB Adapter) features the Board of Education
- BASIC Stamp Discovery Kit (USB only) features the Board of Education

Download the complete full-color PDF of What's a Microcontroller? for free, along with programming software, select example code, additional Stamps in Class Mini Projects, videos, translations, and more from the What's a Microcontroller Resource Page.