Robotics Shield Kit for Arduino - Parallax

SKU: ROB-11494 Brand: Sparkfun

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Make your Arduino the onboard brain of a mobile robot and learn robotics, electronics, and programming with this versatile kit and its accompanying step-by-step lessons. The Board of Education Shield plugs into your own Arduino (not included) and mounts on the popular Boe-Bot robot chassis. This kit includes everything you need (except for an Arduino) to get started learning about robotics!

With this kit and your own Arduino module, you can follow the Robotics with the Board of Education Shield for Arduino lessons with over 40 hands-on activities, such as:

Learning to program your robot’s Arduino Brain
Calibrating the robot’s continuous rotation servo motors
Using lights and speakers for status indicators
Assembling the robot
Preprogrammed navigation
Using touch-switches to navigate by contact with objects
Using phototransistors to navigate by light
Using non-contact infrared sensors to measure distance and avoid or follow objects

Includes:

Board of Education Shield
Aluminum Chassis
2x Servos
2x Wheels
Hardware Kit
Electronic Components
Screwdriver

Documents:

Product Page
Resources (code and lessons)
Product Video

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