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If you have come to learn electronics or continue your electronics hobby, you are in the right place. This guide can help you get started with the minimum of
• Accessories fuss. Parallax offers a ton of products, from microcontrollers and robots to sensors and industrial controllers, get familiar with them by browsing our site or
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o Robotics BASIC Stamp Modules Rating – Very Easy The BASIC Stamp family of microcontrollers can execute
between 2,000 and 19,000 instructions per second, depending
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The BASIC Stamp line of microcontrollers was created
• Sensors specifically to make learning to use a μ-controller simple and
o All Sensors easy. The efficient BASIC Stamp 2 draws a mere 3 mA of current
while running, and in sleep mode requires only 50 μA. All
• Education general purpose I/O lines on Stamp modules can be set as
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Functioning as stand-alone ICs, beginners can plug a BASIC either inputs or outputs, and can be switched at run time.
 Product Info Stamp into a board and immediately begin programming, with
• Microcontrollers no other circuitry required. The enormous amount of information
for BASIC Stamps available in print and online make the Stamp The PBASIC language of the Stamps place many powerful
• Robotics line one of the most widely documented μ-controllers in commands in the hands of users, making complex tasks such
existence. as pulse width modulation, serial communication and button
• Accessories debounce as simple as a single instruction.
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Due to its ease of use, Stamp ICs are the microcontrollers of
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Propeller Chips Rating – Easy (SPIN), Intermediate/Advanced (ASM) Eight concurrent, independent processors on a single chip.
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• Education Information A completely new approach to solving problems with Pre-written objects for the Propeller are offered for free on the
microcontrollers, the Propeller does not suffer paradigms typical Parallax website, including drivers for mice, keyboards, video,
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of microcontrollers. Multi-processing (as opposed to multi- VGA, and many, many more.
• Educator's Courses tasking) with the easy-to-learn SPIN language can be learned
fairly quickly.
o Hosting a The ability to develop objects (object orientated programming)
Course makes complex project development easy.
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of the Propeller, going back to single core microcontrollers may
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Parallax is the perfect place to begin your first foray into electronics programing. Our BASIC Stamp microcontroller is programmed in an easy to learn
language called PBASIC, and our experiment-based tutorials make learning fun. Our curriculum is recommended for ages 14 and up. Once you have learned
the "basics" you can begin incorporating accessories like sensors into your projects. Our well documented products, wide variety of sample code, free
technical support, and large programming community at our Discussion Forums, can help you be a success. Choose one of the following three programming
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Boe-Bot Robot Full Kit - A fun way to learn BASIC Stamp Activity Kit - Our most economical BASIC Stamp Discovery Kit - The most complete
programming and robotics at the same time. starter kit. way to get started. Gives you the hardware to
explore every text in our series of tutorials.

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We began offering electronics curriculum in 1997, with our Stamps In Class series of tutorials. Suitable for students 14 and up, our tutorials will keep your
students engaged as they learn. Click here for more information on our educational line of products. To support you we host an educator's discussion forum,
offer quantity discounts, and we can put together custom kits for your class' personalized track. We also offer one and two-day teacher training courses to
help get you up to speed. E-mail education@parallax.com for details.

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Board of Education Full Kit - The basic hardware Whats a Microcontroller? Parts & Text - This parts ROBO Parts & Text - An exciting curriculum, this
pack required for our Stamps In Class tutorials. and text, with the Board of Education Full Kit will parts and text, with the Board of Education Full Kit
teach electronics programming from the ground up. will walk you through building and programming a
robot.

Ready for a new experience in programming? Try the Propeller chip, which features eight 32-bit processors and a shared memory and system clock, making
true independent and cooperative simultaneous multi-tasking possible. The Propeller chip may be programmed in our object-based Spin language, low-level
Assembly, or with a third-party C Compiler. Most users appreciate the overall processing power and I/O capabilities. Hobbyists like the powerful yet easy
language while robot builders and process control engineers appreciate the parallel processing capabilities. Many find the on-board video generation and easy
connection to popular PC peripherals reduces the need for additional support components.
 Propeller Education Kit - A tutorial-based way to HYDRA - Learn Propeller programming while you Stingray - A Propeller-controlled board is the brains
learn Propeller programming complete with a large design old-school video games and graphics. of this robust and highly-customizable mid-sized
breadboard playground. robot.

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