Suggestion for my robot?

[ronnel]

I want to build a robot but not too complex. Im a newbie in creating a robot that will be useful to human. can you give me some ideas?

Thanks!....

Comments are much appreciated

[CrashOverron]

try the $50 robot and build from there

http://www.societyofrobots.com/step_by_step_robot.shtml

[ronnel]

Thanks for the reply. i read the step by step tutorial. but ihave a lot of question. what is the programmer used to program the microcontroller?

thanks again!

[Rockyboy53]

WinAVR is used in the $50 robot tutorial.  I have a Mac and used MacAVR .  There's some better ones, but I'm not too sure on where to get it.

[HDL_CinC_Dragon]

The tutorial really does explain all that.
Hardware: http://www.societyofrobots.com/step_by_step_robot_step1.shtml
Software: http://www.societyofrobots.com/step_by_step_robot_step4.shtml