Know electronics and want to learn programming? Or know programming and want to learn electronics? Learn both side-by-side with the 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? PDF. 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.
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
- Program with the free BASIC Stamp Editor for Windows (*see below for Chrome & Chromebook)
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BASIC Stamp Activity Kit Contents:
- Board of Education USB and BASIC Stamp 2 microcontroller
- Electronic input, output, and passive components for building circuits
- Programming cable for your PC’s USB port
- 6 – 1k ohm Resistor 1/4 Watt (#150-01020)
- 8 – 10k ohm Resistor 1/4 Watt (#150-01030)
- 2 – 2k ohm Resistor 1/4 Watt (#150-02020)
- 3 – 220 ohm Resistor 1/4 Watt (#150-02210)
- 2 – 470 ohm Resistor 1/4 Watt (#150-04710)
- 1 – 4.7k ohm Resistor 1/4 Watt (#150-04720)
- 1 – 10k Potentiometer (#152-01031)
- 1 – 0.01uF 50V poly Capacitor (#200-01031)
- 1 – 1000uF Capacitor (#201-01080)
- 4 – 0.1uF Mono Radial Capacitor (#200-01040)
- 1 – 1uF Electrolytic Capacitor (#201-01050)
- 2 – 10uF Electrolytic Capacitor (#201-01062)
- 1 – 3300uF Capacitor (#201-03080)
- 2 – Green LED (#350-00001)
- 1 – Bi-Color LED (#350-00005)
- 2 – Red LED (#350-00006)
- 2 – Yellow LED (#350-00007)
- 1 – 7-Segment LED Green (#350-00027)
- 1 – Phototransistor (#350-00029)
- 2 – Tact Switch (#400-00002)
- 1 – 3-Pin male/male Header (#451-00303)
- 1 – Transistor 2N3904 (#500-00001)
- 1 – Digital Potentiometer AS5220-B10 (#604-00010)
- 1 – 3″ Jumper Wires, bag of 10 (#800-00016)
- 1 – Piezo Speaker (#900-00001)
- 1 – Parallax Standard Servo (#900-00005)
Note that the What’s a Microcontroller? Text is no longer included in printed form, but it can be downloaded in a pdf
