vex

This is just a tip (which I learned today through others on this site, thanks guys)

All Vex electronics are self regulated.

Which means that even though they say you must use their battery's, you can run any battery between 6v and 12v without drama.

For example, I'm running a 12v nimh 5000 pack on my robot with a regular Molex/Tamiya connector.

http://letsmakerobots.com/node/27575

Hello

Im envisaging on building my first robot, so would greatly appreciate any advice.

About me > I've some basic programming skills through GW-Basic and QuickBASIC which i learnt nearly 10yrs back. I suck at C programming, and am not well versed with microcontrollers/electronics, although im sure i can learn (maybe not C!!). Mechanically, im sure i can conjure up something fairly decent, if not pathetic!

I wish to build an autonomous robot capable of navigating a human sized labyrinth at our local senior center.  I need to make it mostly from VEX parts programmed in RobotC.

Im pretty new to robotics ,about 3 mon experience, but ive already built about 4 working robots, i work 6-7 days a wk and dont have alot of time to worry about getting all my different parts together for building a new robot so i am looking at buying a vex starter kit. I am wondering what its mech, elec, and programming limitations are and what programmer to get if i buy it.