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By bluesthue

June 22, 2009
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I am an absolute beginner... i have very little experience in electronics, very little experience in mechanics... but i am an expert programmer...  my question is: what do you recommend for a beginner wanting to get into robotics?  I am thinking I might want to get a roboduino board but I see here a lot of people are using picaxe. 

The advantages of something like the roboduino is that the board is pretty self contained and wouldn't need a seperate board to drive the servos...

Any suggestions as to what type of micro-controller might be best to start with?

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By Simon Z
@ Tue, 2009-06-23 14:02
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The normal Arduino board is also a good choice. As you are an "expert programmer" you'd have no problem at all using the arduino board. You could just setup you're eclipse to use the avr-gcc compiler and directly export the c code to the microcontroller. no problem.
By robologist
@ Mon, 2009-06-22 19:28
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A programmer in what? If familar with C, then Arduino is C-like. The Roboduino has some good connection to power the sensors and devices connected to the board from the robot. It's probably the best choice given the information provided.