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
All components in the ""What's a microcontroller" kit and text