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ElectronicsStudent

Hello everyone,

i'm currently taking an electronics course at a tech school.· I was asked today to think of a project i could have done by christmas break and i am clueless!· It has to use the Basic Stamp II, and we have to write our own code.· Any Ideas??

Joms

Look through the Nuts and Volts area or better yet try looking though the "Customer Applications' part of the site. You probably would not want to copy a project but look though them to give you ideas of different things you can do. I like it because it shows pictures so you will be able to get ideas of different ways of mounting, etc. Here is the link... http://www.parallax.com/tabid/271/Default.aspx

allanlane5

That basically gives you 4 weeks. 4 weeks is not a long time. You could do a "blinking LED" in a day. If you had the hardware on-hand already, you could probably use a "Ping" with servo to roam around your kitchen floor -- but not if you had to wait two weeks for the hardware to arrive.

One of my personal favorites is interfacing with a hand-held TV-remote, set to the Sony or Phillips protocols. This is nice, because once you have that, you can "drive" the BOE-Bot around with the remote in your hand. But 4 weeks of school-nights is not realistic for that.

What is your BS2 sitting on? Is the Homework Board? Is it the Board-Of-Education (BOE)? Is it a home-made board? What additional parts do you have on hand? A CdS cell based sun-tracker or sun-monitor can be a nice project.

RoboticsProfessor

Mostly, a project that interest you and seems fun will work the best because you will be more motivated, but here are some ideas. Although I put building a complete robot in the "Hard" category, these are not really "hard", you just will need to have the money to purchase the materials and the time to assemble and lear=n the basics.

Simple:

Sense switch touches and display a separate LED for each switch.

Make some LEDs flash in a pattern.

Set up three or more switches. Each one pressed makes a different sound. Play simple music.

Play "Mary Had a Little Lamb" or other simple song on the speaker

Make a 3-person "game buzzer" where only the first one to push their button has a light go on, and the others are blocked out.

Medium:

Set up IR sensors to detect obstacles. (Then have IR report the distance to the obstacle.)

Install two servos on a base and have the robot move around.

Hard:

Buy the BOE-Bot and follow the examples in the robot book. (Not really hard, but you need to spend some $$$ and take some more time.)

Line-following robot (Do a search on YouTube to see many examples)

Maze-solving robot, like:My Line Maze Robot
http://picrobots.com/my-line-maze.php

Line Maze, First Run
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=raEQlDq_EwI

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ElectronicsStudent

i have all sorts of fm transmitters and recievers and stuff, and i can do stuff with IR pretty easy. the only problem is that we only have 4 weeks. thanks for the couple of ideas you have given me so far. if you think of more just let me know!
Also, the board i am dealing with is the homework board.