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Looking for advice - want to buy my first robot - have $400.

2006-11-09T23:30:07+01:00

Check out the Bioloid Beginners Kit (sold at this site).
It has the advantages of a Robotis kit -- very high quality product and a lego-for-adults environment for learning about robot control including embedded gcc, open protocols, GUI, etc.).

Have a look at this Robotis page where you can see some examples of what can be built with the beginners kit. Edit: they use cookies rather than URL to store language def. so you'll have to navigate to the Bioloid page..

Statistics: Posted by limor — Thu Nov 09, 2006 11:30 pm

Looking for advice - want to buy my first robot - have $400.

2006-11-09T04:02:05+01:00

Hello Hivemind, thanks for the reply.

I love programming, and I really like all the options you list, however they are all around $1000 - and my budget is around $400.

So for now, although disappointing, they are out of my price range.

Statistics: Posted by Gadgetguy — Thu Nov 09, 2006 4:02 am

Looking for advice - want to buy my first robot - have $400.

2006-11-09T03:02:54+01:00

Hello, Welcome to the forums.

Well depending on your experience (and if you can squeeze out just a little more money) then you have plenty of options. The RN-1 certainly has a lot of support here on the forums, and the Bioloid is a great robot. If you want to program in C (or just use the default software) and have the best servos for your money, then go with Bioloid. It seems a little lego-like (with all the designs you can create), but from what ive seen and read, it is a great bot. You may be able to find it elsewhere, but it seems like robosavvy has a decent price on it. You certainly will not regret spending the money for any of the bots here.

It seems to me though. that the RN-1 or the Kondo robots are a better robots for starting a design as you can easily dissasemble and recreate your robot with custom made brackets (aluminum, plastic, carbonfiber, cardboard-jk, but you name it). You have plenty of choices, take your time, whatever you buy you will enjoy.

-Hive

Statistics: Posted by hivemind — Thu Nov 09, 2006 3:02 am

Looking for advice - want to buy my first robot - have $400.

2006-11-09T02:45:37+01:00

Hello all,

I have spent quite a bit of time reading this forum, and I am impressed by the experience and knowledge of most participants!

I would like to ask you for you advice.

I have about $400 to spend (maybe $500, but not more) and I would like to purchase my first robot kit. What would you recommend? Is there something in this pricerange?

Thanks for any advice...

Statistics: Posted by Gadgetguy — Thu Nov 09, 2006 2:45 am