Tell Us Your Parallax Story: Aristides Alvarez’s Five Hour Bus Ride to Get a BS2

This September, Parallax has been in business for 35 years. As part of our celebration, we asked our customers to tell us your Parallax story. This is one we received from our community which will be shared throughout the month.  Above, you’ll see pictures of Ari’s “Curso DeRobotica” in the late 1990s, and his first […]

Need micro:bit modules and there are none? Here’s how to get them!

Supply Shortage Background For well over a year, micro:bit modules have come and gone from our inventory. While we regularly receive thousands into our stock, they are always gone within a few days. Why the shortage? The global semiconductor supply shortage and component obsolescence have made it difficult for the micro:bit Educational Foundation to consistently […]

Web Page Control of WS2811 LEDs Using the IoT Gateway on Raspberry Pi

Description This Quick Byte further demonstrates the possibilities for IoT and the Propeller 2. It’s the second in a series with Send Email from the Propeller 2 Using the IoT Gateway on Raspberry Pi, and uses the same setup.  Using the Raspberry Pi as an internet gateway, the included code allows a set of RGB […]

Tell Us Your Parallax Story: JonyJib’s Camera Controls Fly High with the Propeller 1

This September, Parallax has been in business for 35 years. As part of our celebration, we asked our customers to tell us your Parallax story. This is one we received from our community which will be shared throughout the month.  https://youtu.be/uAdV5ggBJG0 I’m John Huffman, the owner of JonyJib. Most of our products are designed to […]

Parallax is Now an Approved Raspberry Pi Reseller

SHOP RASPBERRY PI Parallax is now an approved Raspberry Pi Reseller! We are initially offering the top-selling Raspberry Pi 4 Computer Model B and Raspberry Pi 400 Personal Computer Kit at the manufacturer’s suggested prices without additional markup!  Propeller 2 developers will really appreciate this news. Among the reasons we have formed this agreement include: Send […]

Parallax Servos Upgraded to Digital Internal Design

Parallax Standard Servo Parallax Continuous Rotation Servo In 1997, Parallax created a custom-designed servo with the finest R/C manufacturer, Futaba Corporation of Japan. Since then, we’ve put several million of our custom-designed servos in our robot kits and made small improvements through the years but maintained signal-to-position compatibility. Many of our original servos are still […]

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