• Question: How would i be able to make a robot with a limited budget with a good outcome.

    Asked by swaggymcyolo to James on 8 Mar 2013.
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      James Stovold answered on 8 Mar 2013:

      Hi Swaggymcyolo,

      Your best bet would be to look into the Raspberry Pi project ( http://www.raspberrypi.org/ ). This is a small, cheap computer that could be used as the controller for a small robot. Obviously, depending on what you wanted to do with the robot, there are different pros and cons to using this, but as a starting point you can’t really beat it (especially for $25). There are some tutorials on the same website for how to build a simple robot that you can control with a Wiimote ( http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/projects/raspberrypi/tutorials/robot/robot_assembly/ ), which would mean you don’t have to construct your own chassis for the robot in order to get the basics up and running. After that you could always work on ways to customise the robot to do what you wanted.

      Hope that helps!

      James

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