Birthday Gift, Robot?

[DivideByZero]

Hi, my b-day is coming up really soon and I really want a robotics kit!

Can someone please help me? I want one to learn robotics with.

 

These are my requirements:

1 - I want to be able to program the robot in C/C++.

2 - It should include all motors and sensors in the kit.

3 - Price should be relatively low.

 

Is there any kit like that I can buy?

Online somewhere?

Please help me out, thanks!!

[CaptainPanic]

Lego?

 

http://mindstorms.lego.com/eng/community/resources/default.asp

 

It uses NQC (Not Quite C) (http://bricxcc.sourceforge.net/nqc/) for programming... and Lego is pretty awesome for building things like robots. - and the price is in the range of toys

 

p.s. I've never used the programming-part myself, but I've heard good things about it.

p.s.p.s. They have an online shop, and even sell individual pieces/bricks/parts.

[DivideByZero]

oh right! I never thought of that. Lego sounds good. But I want to do the programming part excessively. i'll probably search around more

[YT2095]

you could always buy a simple USB breakout board that gives you full s/ware controlled I/O with several channels and some even come with Relay output directly.

 

the Robot side of things is entirely up you after that

[Think it thru]

Will this site help? http://www.robotoys.com/st_sresults.html

 

Lots of robot toys, for the ones on the page I linked to I searched for programable robots. You might search Ebay and other sites too.