I recently got excited and interested in doing some robotics in my not so spare time. For some reason it has just grabbed me.
So I started investigating, and I've been shocked (overwhelmed?) by all the choices. I considered the non-vacuum version of the roomba called the create, with a netbook globbed on top of it. So then my friend Kurt started talking to me about the cool little beagle board and the new sweet dual core panda board.
The panda board looked really nice, but I decided I didn't really want to spend my time tinkering under the operating system, and pandaboard just smelled like an operating system project.
Then I stumbled across arduino. It's a small, cheap, simple micro controller for robotics projects. I've ordered one from sparkfun. Hurry up fedex man, hurry up.
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