ActivityBot Kit Info [1]
Product Info
Topical Intros
ActivityBot Tutorials [3] (Web book, approx 50 pages, all step-by-step)
Cool Projects
Here are some projects that may require a few additional parts. Part numbers are listed in the project, and you can find them by pasting the part number into the search field at www.parallax.com [4].
Supplemental Material
Here is a list of additional activities that can be added to the ActivityBot tutorials with no additional part purchases required. For full support of these topics, see the Propeller Activity Kit Info [7] page.
Propeller C - Start Simple [8] (C langauge basics - 11 pages)
Propeller C - Simple Circuits [9] (Circuit basics - 4 of 7 activities)
- Blink a Light [10]
- Check Pushbuttons [11]
- Piezo Beep [12]
- Sense Light [13]
Propeller C - Simple Devices [14] (Device basics - 4 of 11 activities)
The WAV files and TV remote ones assume that you already have these fairly common household items: speaker/earbuds, universal remote that can be programmed to control a SONY TV.
- Sense Distance with Ping))) [15]
- SD Card Data [16]
- Play WAV Files [17] (Speaker/earbuds not included)
- IR Receiver and Remote [18] (Universal remote not included)
Further Investigation
Propeller C Tutorials [19] also has material for further exploration into C langauge and the multicore Propeller Microcontroller with: Functions [20], Multicore Approaches [21], Library Studies [22], Pointers on Data [23], Reference [24], and an I2C Tutorial [25] from Simple Protocols [26].