I was given an Asuro Programmable Robot Kit for my birthday, but haven’t had a chance to look at it until now. It looks like a fantastic integrated solution to use as an introduction to robotics, however there is one particular aspect I dislike about it; the bundled software and programming solution. I haven’t tried installing the software, but it looks clunky, restrictive and painful, additionally they expect me to program it with the included IR programmer (utilising the software). I would much rather use Adafruit’s USBtinyISP, Emacs, AVRDUDE, GCC-AVR and design an AVR target board (which I’m about to finalise, more details to come) to program the included ATMega8.
After I have it all soldered together and have it running some software I’ll post more details on what I’ve done, for now all I have are plans.
hi i am 14 and i want to get one of these kits would it be good for me to do for robotics and i am perfect at soldering
If you have some experience with any programming, this kit is a great introduction into robotics (without going through the path of a Lego Mindstorms NXT). However, without any experience with programming this could be a little more challenging, because while the included instructions are very thorough, some prior experience would go a long way.