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The What’s a Microcontroller? text answers the question, “What’s a Microcontroller?” by showing students how they can design their own customized, intelligent inventions using the BASIC Stamp® module. It incorporates a variety of fun and engaging experiments that appeal to the imagination using motion, light, and sound. The activities are designed to introduce many basic principles in the fields of computer programming, electricity and electronics, mathematics and physics. The text is designed to accommodate a wide range of ages and skill levels.

Includes:

• Reaction timer game
  
• Potentiometer-controlled servo
  
• 7-segment LED light meter
  
• Nokia Cell Phone ringtone player

A Board of Education (BOE) and BStamp or the Basic Stamp 2 Carrier Board and the BStamp is required to use this product.

Also available:
Boe-Bot Robot Kit (Includes a Board of Education and BStamp)
Parallax USB Oscilloscope

What's a Microcontroller? Parts Kit and Text is an integral part of ARRL's Teacher Institute on Wireless Technology

version 2-2. © 2007, by Parallax, Inc.