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?' book. 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.

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

"What's a Microcontroller?" book with 40 hands-on activities, Electronic input, output and passive components for building circuits, USB cable

A BASIC Stamp is a single-board computer that runs the Parallax PBASIC language interpreter in its microcontroller. The developer's code is stored in an EEPROM, which can also be used for data storage. The PBASIC language has easy-to-use commands for basic I/O, like turning devices on or off, interfacing with sensors, etc. More advanced commands let the BASIC Stamp module interface with other integrated circuits, communicate with each other, and operate in networks. The BASIC Stamp microcontroller has prospered in hobby, lower-volume engineering projects and education due to ease of use and a wide support base of free application resources.