Hi,<br><br>I've been using the Atmel AVR series of microcontrollers for years as they were designed with C in mind unlike older architectures (ie. Microchip PIC and others).<br><br>There's a large community and the open source GCC compiler source works for it so you don't have to learn yet another compiler as it's a transferrable skill.<br>
<br>An excellent source of information is: <a href="http://www.avrfreaks.net">www.avrfreaks.net</a><br><br>as for robot kits I can't really suggest one as I've always designed mine from scratch... (yeah, I like headaches!)<br>
But if money is no issue there's lots of educational robot kits available... check <a href="http://www.robotshop.ca">www.robotshop.ca</a> for such kits... <br><br>ps: i have no affiliations with above sites btw. Just spitting out stuff from the top of my head...<br>
<br>Good hunting<br><br>Stephane,<br><a href="http://robotics.no-ip.org">http://robotics.no-ip.org</a><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 4:12 PM, Paul Otheim <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:coriolis220@gmail.com">coriolis220@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Hi,<br><br>I am looking for a robot or perhaps a microcontroller that is programmable in C. I am a beginner at this but ultimately would like to build a working robot and practice my C programming skills in the process. I would appreciate any suggestions on beginner kits, perhaps even intermediate. I don't mind soldering and I am quite comfortable with tools. Really I am just looking for a good place to start, the only requirement, be it a microcontroller or a robotics kit, that I am really looking to satisfy is that it use C as its programming language.<br>
<br>Thanks.<br>
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