Know electronics and want to learn programming? Or know programming and want to learn electronics? Learn both side-by-side with BASIC Stamp Activity Kit!
Want to make your own inventions? Learn circuit-building and programming at the same time with the BASIC Stamp microcontroller! It’s a tiny on-board computer like the ones found in many electronic devices. Discover 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, and each example program is followed by a detailed explanation so you learn as you go.
Once you’ve mastered the basics, you can expand your horizons with Robotics with the Boe-Bot, Smart Sensors and Applications, Understanding Signals, and other Parts & Text Kits in the Stamps in Class series.
Key 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:
- HomeWork Board with a built-in BASIC Stamp 2 microcontroller
- What’s a Microcontroller? Text with 40 hands-on activities
- Electronic input, output, and passive components for building circuits
- Programming cable for your PC’s USB port
- 6 – 1k ohm Resistor 1/4 Watt
- 8 – 10k ohm Resistor 1/4 Watt
- 2 – 2k ohm Resistor 1/4 Watt
- 3 – 220 ohm Resistor 1/4 Watt
- 2 – 470 ohm Resistor 1/4 Watt
- 1 – 4.7k ohm Resistor 1/4 Watt
- 1 – 10k Potentiometer
- 1 – 0.01uF 50V poly Capacitor
- 1 – 1000uF Capacitor
- 4 – 0.1uF Mono Radial Capacitor
- 1 – 1uF Electrolytic Capacitor
- 2 – 10uF Electrolytic Capacitor
- 1 – 3300uF Capacitor
- 2 – Green LED
- 1 – Bi-Color LED
- 2 – Red LED
- 2 – Yellow LED
- 1 – 7-Segment LED Green
- 1 – Phototransistor
- 2 – Tact Switch
- 1 – 3-Pin male/male Header
- 1 – Transistor 2N3904
- 1 – Digital Potentiometer AS5220-B10
- 1 – 3″ Jumper Wires, bag of 10
- 1 – Piezo Speaker
- 1 – Parallax Standard Servo
