Robot Features:

• Fun - Follow lines, Navigate a room or a maze, Roam toward light, Flash lights, Follow a person or vehicle, and much more!
• Beginner-friendly - No programming or electronics experience needed
• Open platform - Exposed circuitry to learn electronic concepts and create circuits using a breadboard
• Solder-free - Experiment with custom circuits on the breadboard (no special-brand connectors needed)
• Understandable - Included text provides easy-to-follow tutorials with diagrams and schematics. Curriculum includes 3D models with step by step instructions.
• Programmable - PBASIC is easy to learn and introduces concepts found in most programming languages
• Autonomous - Touch, light and infrared sensors let the Boe-Bot navigate on its own. Whiskers make it look like insects!
• Expandable - Additional sensors and hardware expansion kits are available to add additional engineering challenges
• Durable - Thick, brushed-aluminum chassis with
  mounting holes for servos and accessories doesn't bend easily and will
  last for many years. Rugged wheels and continuous rotation servo motors
  for accurate control.
• Communicable - LED lights, a
  piezospeaker, phototransistors, and infrared emitter/receiver pairs
  provide fun methods of sending and receiving feedback
• Connectable - USB cable to connect to PC for programming, then disconnect for autonomous roaming and activities
• Battery Powered - Uses 4 AA Batteries for safe power with easy access to remove for recharging (batteries not included)
• Circuit Buildable - Kit includes resistors,
  transistors, capacitors, LEDs, linear voltage regulator, wires, and all
  the parts needed to build project circuits
• Controllable - Can use a standard remote control with infrared receiver to control movements (not included in kit)
• Expandible - Many add-on accessories and an engineering expansion kit are avaialble for added hours of fun.

Recommended - by teachers, students, and parents

• for ages 13 and up,
• for boyscouts robot badge,
• for robotics clubs,
• for applying STEM, physics, and common core math concepts,
• for reaching technology literacy (STL) benchmarks,
• for Career Tech Ed - STEM, Information Technology, Engineering, and Manufacturing,
• for SKILLS USA - Electronics, Mechatronics, and Engineering

System Requirements

Boe-Bot Technical

Parallax IDE system requirements:

• Chromebook, Linux, Windows, or Mac OS X operating system
• Google Chrome browser (installed)
• Serial port or USB 2.0 port plus USB Drivers
• Internet connection (only for driver installation and Google account syncing)
• Serial or USB BASIC Stamp 2 Development Board

• Note: Requires 4 AA batteries, not included, and a PC running Windows XP/Vista/7. Recommended for ages 13 and up.
• 
  Board of Education development board with a BASIC Stamp 2 microcontroller (#28803)
• 
  Durable brushed-aluminum chassis with mounting holes for servos and accessories (#700-00022)
• 
  Parallax continuous rotation servos for the drive wheels (#900-00008)
• 
  Sensors including whisker-switches, phototransistors, and infrared emitter/receiver pairs
• 
  LEDs and a piezospeaker for audio and visual feedback
• 
  All the resistors, capacitors, and jumper wires needed to build the circuits
• 
  All the screws, nuts, and other hardware needed to build the Boe-Bot
• 
  Parallax #1 Phillips/flathead screwdriver
• 
  USB A to Mini-B cable to connect the Boe-Bot to your Windows computer for programming

Programming Kit	Boe-Bot, ASIC Stamp Activity/ Discovery Kits
WINDOWS
Mac
Chromebook
Linux
Software Used	Parallax IDE for Chrome, BASIC Stamp Editor