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What is a simple way to start with robotics?
The Seattle Robotics Society put together something call the Workshop Robot. Workshop Robot.

According to Dave Hylands, this is a really nice robot to start with. It uses the ATMega16/32; a simpler version of the ATMega128 used with the robostix.

By using a small amount of external circuitry, a designer can add a huge number of sensors (as gumstix does with the expansion board).

&quot;Where the gumstix starts to become advantageous is when you start using algorithims which require alot more memory than is available on the ATMega processors&quot;.