28123 Parallax Inc, 28123 Datasheet - Page 13

• Manufacturer Part Number: 28123
• Description: TEXT WHAT'S A MICROCONTROLLER
• Manufacturer: Parallax Inc
• Type: Programmingr

Specifications of 28123

• Style: Book
• Title: What's a Microcontroller?
• Contents: Whats a Microcontroller? Text
• Product: Microcontroller Accessories
• Core Processor: PIC16C57c
• Flash: 128 Bytes
• Operating Supply Voltage: 9 V
• Board Size: 31 mm x 16 mm
• Lead Free Status / RoHS Status: Not applicable / Not applicable

the left is Parallax Inc.’s Boe-Bot
can be tackled using the Boe-Bot after you’ve worked through the activities in this one.
The robot on the right was built by a group of students and entered into a First Robotics
competition. The goal of the contest is different each year. In the example shown, the
goal was to see which group’s robot could sort colored hoops the fastest.
Other robots solve complex problems, such as the autonomous remote flight robot shown
at the left of Figure 1-5. This robot was built and tested by mechanical engineering
students at the University of California, Irvine. They used a BASIC Stamp module to
help it communicate with a satellite global positioning system (GPS) so that the robot
could know its position and altitude. The BASIC Stamp also read level sensors and
controlled the motor settings to keep the robot flying properly. The mechanical millipede
robot on the right was developed by a professor at Nanyang Technical University,
Singapore. It has more than 50 BASIC Stamp modules, and they all communicate with
each other in an elaborate network that helped control and orchestrate the motion of each
set of legs. Robots like this not only help us better understand designs in nature, but they
may eventually be used to explore remote locations, or even other planets.
™
. The projects in the Robotics with the Boe-Bot text
Figure 1-4
Educational Robots
Parallax Boe-Bot™ (left)
First Competition Robot
(right)
Figure 1-5
Examples of Research
Robots that Contain
Microcontrollers
Autonomous flying
robot at UC Irvine (left)
and Millipede Project at
Nanyang University
(right)