Society of Robots - Robot Forum
General Misc => Misc => Topic started by: reildawg on July 27, 2011, 07:51:12 PM
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Sorry if these post seems stupid to anyone.
I've been wanting to get into some sort of robotics for a few years since i played around with sumobots in highschool. I'm in the army now and actually have a fair bit of free time. I was hoping to start with the 50 dollar robot tuturial but i sucked at soldering. I was wondering if the axon series was easy enough to start out on? or if there was some other pre-assembled microcontroller i could start with.
any help appreciated.
-reildawg ???
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I can't help you, I just want to say thank you for serving our country.
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I'd start with the arduino. It's super easy to program, there are a million tutorials for it and best of all it's more power than you'll need at a very reasonable price.
No soldering (that I'm aware of at least) required but be forewarned: soldering is an essential skill. There's only so much you can do without it.
p.s. Willerwolfbot, I'm pretty sure that's what private messages exist for.
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If you need some guidance on how to solder, just go on youtube and search it. A few tutorials will save you a lot of headaches and wasted money. Here's a good one: How and WHY to Solder Correctly (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_NU2ruzyc4#)
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I thought I was really terrible at soldering but it turned out I just had a rubbish soldering iron. I bought a better one and now I'm just terrible!
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Axon or audrino would be good to start. And it's good for teaching you the programming side of robotics. Although you WILL eventually have to learn how to solder. You might as well learn now. I used to think I sucked at it, until I watched some tutorials. It's really easy :) The trick is to heat up the pad and lead, then touch the solder to the OTHER side of the pad.