BASIC Stamp Activity Kit

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Know electronics and want to learn programming? Or know programming and want to learn electronics? Learn both side-by-side with 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? text. 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. Here's what you will learn to do:

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

Kit Contents:

• HomeWork Board with a built-in BASIC Stamp 2 microcontroller
• What's a Microcontroller? Text with 40 hands-on activities
• Electronic input, output, and passive components for building circuits
• Programming cable for your PC's USB port 
• Complete components listing

Free resources! Download the complete What's a Microcontroller text PDF free, as well as programming software, select example code, Stamps in Class Mini Projects and YouTube videos, translations, and more from the What's a Microcontroller Resources Page below.

Once you've mastered the basics, you can expand your horizons with Robotics with the Boe-Bot, Smart Sensors and Applications, Understanding Signals, and other Parts & Text Kits in the Stamps in Class series.

Downloads & Resources:
What's a Microcontroller Resources
HomeWork Board USB docs (.pdf)
HomeWork Board Serial docs (.pdf)
Stamps in Class Program Overview