parallax sumobot or fingertech cobra
so I am brand new to the sumo and wondering where I should start out
there is a parallax sumobot for sale on ebay for a reasonable price, everything included
but I also found this fingertech cobra chassis that looks like a better deal
I heard that you can not scale the parallax, and the cobra would have an arduino board
can anyone give me some advice?
thanks
there is a parallax sumobot for sale on ebay for a reasonable price, everything included
but I also found this fingertech cobra chassis that looks like a better deal
I heard that you can not scale the parallax, and the cobra would have an arduino board
can anyone give me some advice?
thanks
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I did look up the Fingertech Cobra and it looks pretty cool. If I were only concerned about the hardware, I think I'd go with the Cobra over a Sumobot. However, if you want to learn about robotics, no one makes educational material as good as Parallax.
If learning about robotics is your goal, then there's an easy answer, get something with a Propeller. If you finances allow, get an ActivityBot but even if you don't get an ActivityBot, get a Propeller board and turn whatever has a pair (or more) of motors into a robot.
Here's my "Ode of a Propeller Fan Boy" I wrote over on Let's Make Robots.
You don't need to spend much money to get started in robotics. In this thread I show how to make a robot from some foam core board and a couple of servos (and wheels).
To get back to you're original choices, the Cobra robot looks like better hardware but there's a lot of great educational material to use with the SumoBot. The SumoBot uses a BasicStamp as the microcontroller. While a Propeller can run circles around an Arduino, IMO the Arduino is a more capable microcontroller than the Basic Stamp.
http://www.parallax.com/product/27402