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joe61:
Not really. See here for the official versions.

Seriously, there is no best board. You have to decide what kind of thing you're interested in doing, and look for boards that fit.

Joe

vitalik53:
i'm interested in having a lot of sensors, around 5 servos, and be able to navigate through obstacles-- respond to sensors,
and have a lot of subroutine cases.. meaning sizable memory, maybe remote control, and be able to perform infrared 2D mapping of the surroundings.. i guess that's it ..

sorry for the stupid questions.. i'm just a novice, freshmen in college doing electrical engineering, looking forward to do certain projects.. thank you for your time :)

Daanii:
As you are just starting out with microcontrollers, you ought to get an Arduino Uno for starters. That is a pretty powerful board for a beginner, and will do a lot of what you want to do. If you outgrow it, by then you will probably know what board you need next.

If you make too big a leap to an advanced board at the beginning, that may frustrate you and waste a lot of your time.

For example, I bought one of the Adafruit 32u4 breakout boards Joe suggested. There was a lot of trouble with the bootloader that Adafruit was unable to solve. I spent a lot of time trying to deal with that, and finally ended up just tossing the board.

I second Joe's suggestion about Pololu boards. They make some good ones.

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