This Isn't Your Father's Electronics Kit

Your kids need valuable electronic skills to thwart the upcoming robot uprising in 2050. Are you going to let their brains languish playing spongebob on Gameboy all day... or are you going to take action and teach them some serious electronic and programming techniques? The Microcontroller Experimentation Kit isn't your father's analog electronics kit with little springs and a morse code key. Instead you get a serious setup with digital and analog circuits and the ability to program in Basic and download your programs via infrared to the included microprocessor.

This Microcontroller Experimentation Kit introduces you to microcontrollers, sensors, and programming through 100 experiments. Build devices that use sensors to monitor and record data, and use the data to control motors, buzzers, lights, and a digital display. Write programs to control the devices you build. For example, you can build a light meter using a light dependent resistor and record the light levels in a room over a 12 hour period. Or measure and record the temperature outside with a temperature sensor, then graph the results. The number of possible experiments is infinite.

First, assemble a circuit and write a program, following the detailed instructions in the manual. Then, upload the program to the microcontroller using an infrared interface. The program tells the microcontroller how to perform your experiment and store the data. Finally, the data stored in the microcontroller can be downloaded to the computer using the infrared interface.

The 100-page, full-color experiment manual guides your circuit assemblies and programming.

Product Features

• For ages 12 and up
• Sophisticated Electronics kit features a programmable microprocessor
• Learn how computers and programs work
• Assemble circuits and write programs
• Design your own circuits and programs
• Conduct experiments with light, heat and sound sensors
• Store your work in a sleek, portable case
• Use your devices to collect many types of data for other science experiments
• 144-page full color illustrated manual with 100 experiments
• Uses 1 9V Battery (not included)
• Requires PC with Windows 98, 2000 or XP operating system and an available USB or Serial port

  Includes the Following

• Microcontroller module
• Dual digital display module
• 3 transistors
• 7 light emitting diodes
• Motor
• Light sensor (light dependent resistor)
• Temperature sensor (negative temperature coefficient type)
• Potentiometer
• Microphone
• Buzzer
• Diodes
• Capacitors
• Resistors
• Switches
• Wires
• Contact clips
• Infrared interface device
• USB to 9-pin serial adapter (RS-232 type)
• Software CD
• Portable case