As a software engineer with almost no hardware experience, I'm thinking that a decent way for me to get started in robotics would be to make a simple wheeled platform and strap my laptop on top of it. I could control the motors via something like Pololu's serial motor controllers. Then I can make use of a USB or Firewire camera, add some sensors (e.g. using a Phidgets interface), and so on, and do all the programming in an environment with which I'm already comfortable.
The big unknown for me is: what size motors do I need to carry around a laptop, batteries, and a handful of other stuff? Totalling maybe 10 or
15 pounds?Thanks for any recommendations.
- Joe
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