Re: [Fedora Robotics] C programmable Robots or microcontrollers, pointers please!!!

[Stephane Gauthier]

Hi,

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).

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.

An excellent source of information is: www.avrfreaks.net

as for robot kits I can't really suggest one as I've always designed mine
from scratch... (yeah, I like headaches!)
But if money is no issue there's lots of educational robot kits available...
check www.robotshop.ca for such kits...

ps: i have no affiliations with above sites btw. Just spitting out stuff
from the top of my head...

Good hunting

Stephane,
http://robotics.no-ip.org

On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 4:12 PM, Paul Otheim <coriolis220(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:

>  Hi,
>
>  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.
>
>  Thanks.
>
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