Summary - Parallax Boe-Bot Student Manual

SUMMARY

This chapter guided you through the following:
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An introduction to the BASIC Stamp
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Where to get the free BASIC Stamp Editor software you will use in just about all
of the experiments in this text
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How to install the BASIC Stamp Editor software
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An introduction to the BASIC Stamp, Board of Education, and HomeWork
Board
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How to set up your BASIC Stamp hardware
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How to test your software and hardware
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How to write and run a PBASIC program
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Using the
DEBUG
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Using the control character and
CR
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Using ASCII codes to transmit characters
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How to use the BASIC Stamp Editor's Help and the BASIC Stamp Manual
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How to disconnect the power to your Board of Education or HomeWork Board
when you're done
Questions
1. What device will be the brain of your Boe-Bot?
2. When the BASIC Stamp sends a character to your PC/laptop, what type of
numbers are used to send the message through the serial cable?
3. What is the name of the window that displays messages sent from the BASIC
Stamp to your PC/laptop?
4. What PBASIC commands did you learn in this chapter?
Exercises
1. Explain what you can do with each PBASIC command you learned in this
chapter.
2. Explain what the asterisk does in this command:
DEBUG DEC 7 * 11
3. There is a problem with these two commands. When you run the code, the
numbers they display are stuck together so that it looks like one large number
and commands
END
formatter
DEC
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