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There
are as many ways to get started in robotics as there are
ways of skinning the proverbial feline.
One of the main aims of this site is to help you choose
your entry method and to make it as easy to carry it out
as possible.
The
simplest starting point is the Robot Kit - Such as the Elekit
range - which give a good hands on introduction to many
aspects of robotics - Mechanics - electronics - simple behaviours.
All this is done with nimble fingers and the instructions.The
most advanced of the range - PIMOT
- allows you to programme it from a key pad on its back
or from your PC.
Another method is via some of the books on robotics such
as An
Introduction to Robotics and others to be found
in the same section. Some introductory books include a robot
to build from simple card amd plastic (Inventers
Hand Book - Robots) to Plastic Kits ( Robobug )
to new technologies ( Stiquito
- the muscle wire ant )
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The
Edubot range of
programmable Arms
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The
student and the amateur have the luxury of time to investigate
what they wish to a certain extent and to this end here
are many books on all aspects of amateur robotics. Many
of these concentrate on the Build
your own Robot approach.
Many of these books give an introduction to the theory of
the subject backed up by projects which can be built from
off-the-shelf parts
On the
other hand you may not want to build from scratch but just
want to explore the possibilities with a pre-built robot.There
are many on the market, mostly designed for the Education
market, which allow you to program and experiment with a
ready-built robot. The EduBot
range are of this class in robot arm terms while the Miabot
and the Airat2
are ready made wheeled robots which allow immediate programing
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AIrat2
- Programmable
maze solving robot - or make it what you will!
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