The Boe Bot Robot Kit by Parallax is one of the most popular robot kits and is used by thousands of hobbyists, robotics enthusiasts, educational institutions, students and educators worldwide. Several forums and discussion groups can be found on the web on Yahoo, Google, Parallax and other websites, making the Boe Bot Robot the perfect choice of robot building kit due to the extensive support that is already available from both the hobbyist community and Parallax.
The Parallax Boe Bot Programmable Robot Kit
This robot builder kit's main parts are its microcontroller (the Basic Stamp) and programmer board (the Board of Education). The Basic Stamp offers a flexible and easy programming platform, whose "brain", the PIC16C5x microcontroller by Microchip, can be programmed in the simple PBASIC language.
The Boe Bot robot kit is now available in USB version, no longer requiring an adapter cable on newer PCs and laptops that do not have a serial port.
The Boe Bot robot can also communicate with and be controlled by Microsoft Robotics Studio, which makes it possible to provide PC base station support for your robots. Advantages of having a PC base station include web monitoring and control, very large data logging capacity, and the ability to code more complex algorithms for your robots using Microsoft programming languages such as Visual C# and VB.Net.
Full assembly of the Boe Bot Robot takes roughly two hours, and no soldering is required. The kit comes with complete hardware, and features a sturdy aluminum chassis, a breadboard with additional project space for sensors, motors, LEDs, speakers, antennas, sonar applications, robot arm, which make the kit be expandable to build more advanced projects involving sensors and actuators once you feel you have mastered the basics of robot building and programming.
If you are looking for a versatile programmable robot platform the The Parallax Boe Bot Robot Kit makes for an excellent selection.
