I met Vinod Akunuri at the recent EdCon conference in Phoenix, Arizona. He enthusiastically approached me without hesitation and pulled up a chair to talk about business. Vinod is a remarkable 23-year-old entrepreneur with a strong technical background. He started his own clothing company at the young age of 16 and later completed a Bachelor’s […]
This week we ran a flash sale on the Propeller 1 Project Board USB (#32810) as shown above and it made one customer nervous about future supplies of the Propeller 1 Multicore Microcontroller. This customer uses the P8X32A-Q44 in a production project and asked me the following: Hi Ken: Thanks for that flash sale! I’ve […]
What started as a Spring Cleaning Sale is now a Summer Cleanup Sale! We’ve got 50+ products available at 25-75% off and many of them are full-production products available elsewhere at much higher costs. All of these products include our regular warranty and service. Browse right over here: https://www.parallax.com/product-category/last-chance/ Have a super weekend! Ken GraceyParallax […]
We’re considering the development and release of a tracked robot chassis for hobby and educational use. Applications are indoor/outdoor on surfaces of all kinds. The basic details of the product would be like this: Aluminum chassis with track segments cut from extrusion Delrin sliders (but with front and back sprickets) BLDC anti-backlash motors with 16:1 […]
Parallax became an authorized reseller of the Raspberry Pi Foundation last year and we’re finally getting our inventory replenished as the long-term supply chain settles down. Earlier this week, we announced that we had hundreds of each version and you purchased nearly all of them in two days. The pictures above show today’s USPS outgoing […]
Propeller Customers, We’ve been out of stock of the Propeller 1 DIP chips (P8X32A-D40) for quite some time now. Many of you are using these in through-hole production projects. I’d like to bring you current on the inventory situation. We’ve just received about 12K units of the P8X32A-D40 from our packaging company in Taiwan. These […]
This super-sized 5X scale working model of a cyber:bot robot uses the same tilt-control micro:bit Python application as the original project at learn.parallax.com!
Dear Community, We have arrived at the final manufacturing phase for the BASIC Stamp2p series. All the modules in this series are equipped with the SX48BD-G microcontroller, which has ceased production for almost 20 years now. Note: the famous BASIC Stamp 1 and BASIC Stamp 2 will remain in production for many years. These modules […]
https://youtu.be/XJa73cWh5bs My name is Andrew Osterhaus. I am an engineering and mechatronics teacher at Alliance Marine Innovation and Technology. I started teaching with the BASIC Stamp, after attending one of the Parallax trainings about 15 years ago. I currently teach three sections of a mechatronics class offered to 10th, 11th, and 12th graders. We just […]
In 1997, Parallax launched its educational microcontroller program with the Board of Education and BASIC Stamp 2 on a prototype metal robot chassis. That prototype evolved into the ground-breaking Boe-Bot robot, with what proved to be the most popular and enduring chassis for educational robots. With over a million units produced, the Parallax Small Robot […]
