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 Radio-Controlled Boe-Bot® robot from a PC
Appeared in the 2003 Product Catalog.
A Primer for Web-Controlled Robotics
With a few additional pieces of hardware it’s really easy to put your Boe-Bot robot under radio control. Using the Parallax 433 mHz RF transmitter/receiver pairs you can send control signals using your keyboard’s 2,4,6 and 8 keys (the numeric keypad). The BASIC Stamp® Windows editor has a white pane for character input. With the SERIN command the BASIC Stamp microcontroller can receive characters and using SEROUT it can send them over an RF link. A receiving Boe-Bot robot will evaluate the ASCII characters and execute the appropriate movement: left, right, back or forward.
 Many additional enhancements could be made using RF transceivers. For example, the Boe-Bot robot could return data to a host PC or BASIC Stamp module such as inclination, temperature, number of objects detected (using whiskers or infrared). A mini mission to Mars costs only a few hundred dollars.
For this project you need the following parts:
- BASIC Stamp 2 Module (#BS2-IC)
- Board of Education® carrier board (#28150)
- Boe-Bot (#28132) with a 433 mHz RF receiver (#27995)
- 433 RF transmitter (#27996)
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