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The Parallax Boe-Bot robot includes the Parallax BASIC Stamp 2 Module:

All Parallax BASIC Stamp 2 (BS2-IC) are Industrial-Rated, with an operating temperature range of -40C to +85C. The BASIC Stamp 2 is a 24-pin DIP microcontroller or single board computer essentially serves as the brains inside of robotic projects. In addition, it is able to control and monitor switches, timers, motors, sensors, relays, valves, and more.

The Parallax Boe-Bot robot's flexibility stems from the fact that all I/O projects are built on the breadboard provided by the Parallax board of education. With this unique feature (the inclusion of the breadboard circuit construction), users can quickly learn about embedded projects, from wiring and components to programming and mechanical dependencies. Moreover, the kit includes a set of passive components (wires, resistors, capacitors and so on), sensors (photo-resistors, bumpers, infrared sensors) and hardware (whisker touch-sensor kit). This allows the construction of up to 41 robotics activities for the Parallax Boe-Bot robot by using the structured PBASIC.

Depending on the Parallax Boe-Bot robot's versions, the Parallax board of education can be one with either a USB-compatible or a serial port connection.

The Parallax Boe-Bot Robot Kit for Microsoft Robotics Studio includes Boe-Bot robot full kit and the eb500 Bluetooth module, making it possible for the Boe-Bot robot to communicate with a PC's Bluetooth radio. As such, users can develop PC code to monitor and orchestrate the activities of one or more Boe-Bot robots, all via Bluetooth wireless.

The kit's documentation and example code provide also tutorials and demonstrations that use a Microsoft Robotics Studio "service" to control the Boe-Bot robot. They demonstrate how to manipulate the Boe-Bot robot's PBASIC and the PC's C# code for PC programmed wireless Boe-Bot robot monitoring and control.

With the Microsoft Robotics Studio, it is now possible to include web monitoring and control, very large data logging capacity, and the ability to code complex algorithms for your robot with Microsoft programming languages such as Visual C# and VB.Net.