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8 • Robotics with the BOE Shield-Bot
Audience & Support
This book is designed to promote technology literacy through an easy introduction to
microcontroller programming and simple robotics.
Are you a middle-school student? You can be successful by following the check-marked
instructions with your teacher’s support.
If you are a pre-engineering student, push yourself a little farther and test your
comprehension and problem-solving skills with the questions, exercises, and projects in
each chapter summary (solutions are provided!)
If you are an independent learner working on your own, go at your own pace and check in
with Parallax’s Robotics forum (forums.parallax.com) if you get stuck.
If you are an educator, feel free to contact our team at [e-mail] for
additional resources and support deploying the Shield-Bot in your STEM program.
Author & Contributors
About the Author
Andy Lindsay joined Parallax Inc. in 1999, and has since authored more than a dozen books,
including What’s a Microcontroller? as well as numerous articles, product documents, and
web tutorials for the company. The original Robotics with the Boe-Bot that is the inspiration
for this book was designed and updated based on observations and educator feedback that
Andy collected while traveling the nation and abroad teaching Parallax Educator Courses
and events. Andy studied Electrical and Electronic Engineering at California State University,
Sacramento, and is a contributing author to several papers that address the topic of
microcontrollers in pre-engineering curricula. When he’s not writing educational material,
Andy does product and applications engineering for Parallax.
Special Contributors
The Parallax team assembled to prepare this edition includes technical writing by Andy
Lindsay, cover art by Jen Jacobs, graphic illustrations by Courtney Jacobs and Andy Lindsay,
photography by Robert Reimers, editing and layout by Stephanie Lindsay.
Several customers helped test-drive this material. Thanks go to Gordon McComb for test-
driving and technical feedback on the original chapter drafts. Special thanks also go to Matt
Zawlocki and his Fall 2015 middle-school students for trying all of the example sketches
with the original Codebender browser-based program editor.