num_pages: 315
description: 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. The activities in this text incorporate a variety of fun and engaging experiments that appeal to the student's imagination using motion light sound and tactile feedback to introduce new concepts. These activities are designed to introduce the student to many basic principles in the fields of computer programming electricity and electronics mathematics and physics. Many of the activities facilitate a hands-on presentation of design practices used by engineers and technicians in the creation of modern machines and appliances using inexpensive and easy to obtain parts. This text is designed to accommodate a wide range of ages and skill levels.
language: English
title: What's a Microcontroller? Student Guide Version 2.2
publisher: Parallax Inc.