Chapter 1: Your Boe-Bot’s Brain
Directions: Use the terms in the word bank to answer the questions below.
1. What is the name of the microcontroller for the Boe Bot?
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2. A programmable device designed into watches, cell phones, calculators, etc… programmed to sense when you press a button.
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3-4 The figure below shows what two objects?
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BOE Connection Instructions
5. How many positions are on the switch on the Board of Education Rev C?
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6. In what position must the switch be set to ensure the power is off?
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7. The condition of having two poles, a positive and or negative polar condition.
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8-12 List the steps in order needed to power the BOE starting with loading the batteries. (4 Steps)
_____ Load the batteries into the battery pack
_____ Power the BOE by turning the position switch from 0 to 1.
_____ Plug the serial cable into the BOE
_____ Plug the battery pack into the battery jack
Your First Program
13. A stream of ones and zeroes used to communicate the text characters displayed by a PC or laptop are called______.
14. The green diagonal chip on the toolbar is called the______. By clicking this you will automatically place '{$ STAMP BS2} This tells the Basic Stamp Editor that you will be downloading the program to a Basic Stamp 2.
15. Clicking on this will automatically place '{$PBASIC 2.5} at the beginning of your program.
______Clicking on this tells the Basic Stamp Editor that you will be using version 2.5 of the PBASIC programming language.
16. Special messages you can send to the Basic Stamp Editor by placing them inside comments to the right of an apostrophe using braces are called ______.
17. A word you can use that tells the Basic Stamp to do a certain job.
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18. Tells the Basic Stamp to send a message to the PC using the serial cable.______
19. Puts the Basic Stamp in low power mode when it’s done running the program.______
20-22. Place the steps in order on how to save your work.
_____ Enter the name HelloBoeBot.bs2 into the file name field
_____ Click File and select save
_____ Click the save button
Save to Science folder in the Robotics file
Chapter 2: Your Boe-Bot’s Servo Motor
1. Use this command to tell the Basic Stamp to wait for a while before executing the next command.______
2. The number you put to the right of the previous command is the value that tells the Basic Stamp how long it should wait before moving on to the next command.
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3. Term used for one thousandth of a second.______
4. The value you would use if you wanted the Boe-Bot to pause for three seconds.
5. The acronym LED stands for this.______
6-7 On an LED light the longer lead is ______while the shorter lead is ______.
Label the following parts: Basic Stamp 2 Module, BOE Carrier Board, battery pack connection, serial cable connection, 3-position switch, reset button