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Your Shield-Bot’s Brain • Chapter 1
Robotics with the BOE Shield-Bot • 9
Chapter 1. Your Shield-Bot's Brain
Parallax Inc.’s BOE Shield-Bot robot is the focus of the activities and projects in this book.
The robot’s Board of Education Shield mounts on a metal chassis along with servo motors,
wheels, and a battery pack. An Arduino Uno module—the programmable brain—plugs in
underneath the BOE Shield.
The activities in this tutorial will guide you through building the mechanical parts and
circuits that make the BOE Shield-Bot work. Then, you’ll write simple programs that make
the Arduino and your robot do four essential robotic tasks:
• Monitor sensors to detect the world around it
• Make decisions based on what it senses
• Control its motion (by operating the motors that make its wheels turn)
• Exchange information with its roboticist (that will be you!)
Robot Kit and Software Options
To do the activities in this tutorial, you will need both hardware and software.
Robot Shield Kit Options
• Robot Shield Kit with Arduino (includes Arduino Uno and USB A-B cable;
#32335)
• Robotics Shield Kit for Arduino (no Arduino nor USB A-B cable; #130-35000)
Boe-Bot Retrofit: If you have a BASIC Stamp Boe-Bot robot, you can convert it to a Shield-Bot with
a Retrofit Kit, available with an Arduino Uno (#910-32333) or without (#32333); USB programming
cable sold separately (#805-00007).
The Arduino Uno brain…
…plugs into the
Board of
Education
®
Shield…
…which mounts on the chassis to
make a BOE Shield-Bot