Are you a Chromebook school who will be using the Parallax Shield-Bot for Arduino Robot? We offer you free and unlimited Codebender:Edu support for the 2023-2024 school year when you purchase a 12-pack Plus for Classrooms! The Parallax Shield-Bot for Arduino is the most popular robotic kit ever made for the Arduino. Educational Arduino school […]
Marco Maccaferri has been quietly evolving his Spin Tools IDE to become a very useful development environment for the Propeller 1 and 2 Multicore Microcontrollers with Spin 1 / Spin 2 and PASM 1 / PASM 2. Spin Tools IDE reflects the familiar strengths of the Parallax Propeller Tool for Windows [only] but with an […]
https://youtu.be/9EB0MQdvGy4 Dear Community, With a feeling of deep sadness for his family, we honor the memory of Kenneth Glass, who passed away in a tragic accident yesterday. Kenneth was not just a member of the Parallax family; he had tremendous creativity, kindness, and innovation that illuminated our lives for over a dozen years. His contributions […]
To make our Educator’s Workshops more efficient for the instructors, Andy Lindsay put some of the key learning requirements into these five short videos. These can be viewed by educators and students alike and they can be found on our YouTube channel or below. These videos will soon be incorporated into our Python tutorials at […]
Dear Community, You have likely seen the Propeller 2 Multicore Microcontroller from Parallax, but have you really taken a close look? The tools, ecosystem, and community are constantly evolving and improving, and our customers are now building successful products. Our most successful applications are environmental sensing, traffic/pedestrian counting, brushless motor control, Internet of Things (IoT) […]
https://youtu.be/_OI-xOQgwKs Kevin Ahr was the first Parallax customer to demonstrate the serial interface to the Propeller 2’s Brushless Motor Control System with Hoverboard motors, today. If you want to create a large, fast and powerful robot with an Arduino, Raspberry Pi (or even a whole PC!) we have released a complete system to make that […]
Today we issue the “last chance” buying opportunity for the P8X32A Propeller QuickStart Board. This board had an amazingly long production run, but volumes diminished in recent years. You can buy the remaining P8X32A Propeller QuickStart Boards at 25% off. If you are using the P8X32A Propeller Quick Start Board in production, we suggest you […]
You’re looking at a technical education instructor who is experiencing the reward of experiential learning with the cyber:bot! One of the students summarized the event like this: “GCU hosted two GenCyber camps this summer, one for K-12 teachers and one for grades 7-12+ students. Despite the fact that the majority of the teachers were programming […]
https://youtu.be/wF-4XYw05g0 We have about 20K of our custom Parallax servos in stock, both models (continuous rotation and standard). You know these servos well: they’re custom-made for us by Futaba and we’ve been supplying them to you for 25 years. When you buy 10 units, they’re almost 50% off! https://www.parallax.com/product-category/featured-sale/ We are running this sale until […]
https://youtu.be/HHigg_v7NUQ Joel Darbro’s students have just won two “Grand Champion” awards in the Montgomery County Kansas State Fair with their BlocklyProp projects. Robot Rodeo is a mechanical bull based on the ActivityBot 360° and the Solar Stock Tank De-icer uses the Propeller Activity Board WX. The Solar Stock Tank De-icer uses the e-Ink display, temperature […]
