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 Robotics Kit - PICA2.0 - $149.95

This is a intermediate skill-leveled robot kit, suitable for students in technical colleges as well as universities. This robotics kit will give you the opportunity to work with a 16×2 LCD, DC motors, servo motors, and more!

The backbone of the Robo-PICA kit is a PIC PIC16F887 microcontroller, set to run at 20MHz. Builders can write the controlling program in assembly, BASIC and/or C. This kit includes a number of example programs, compiled using the mikroC compiler, from [3] mikroElektronika.

A USB programmer is included, compatible with Microchip’s PICkit2TM programmer. The software can use PICkit2TM programming software. Free download the latest version at [4] www.microchip.com.

Features:

• Controlled by PIC16F887 Microcontroller
• Programmable via USB programmer (included)
• Free UART port for interfacing wired and wireless serial devics
• LCD16×2 display
• Piezo speaker
• 3x LEDs
• 2x DC motors
• 3x Servo motor Ports
• 8-Programmable ports
• Mechanical parts for building the robot
• Power supplied from 4 of AA battery (rechargeable 1700mAH recommended)
• CDROM with manuals and MikroC evaluation software

Documents:

• [5] User’s Manual
• [6] Example Code