I need some advice on Raspberry Pi for my son who is interested in Robotics.

My son is interested in Robotics. He is 15 and has already worked on Raspberry Pi with some friends at school. I would like to get him a Robotics starter kit to begin doing his own projects at home, but I have no clue about this stuff. So I was told to join this group for some advice. Can anyone recommend to me what I need to get…the RPI module on its own does not go very far…so what else do I need to order? Anyone out there who can help me?

Would be very grateful for advice.

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0 Problemchild over 11 years ago

Hi there Keith, it's always hard to recommend a particular course of action with out knowing the capabilities and prior knowledge of your son.
Assuming he currently knows little but is willing to learn I would say that the first task is to learn a programming language any will do but Python is particularly well supported on the 'PI.
Once you are somewhat familiar with the basics I would then take the step of trying to interface some simple sensors(or at least switches and LEDs) to the Pi.
https://projects.drogon.net/raspberry-pi/gpio-examples/tux-crossing/gpio-examples-1-a-single-led/
How you do this doesn't matter there are many online tutorials .What ever suits your son is best , once you have learned simple I/O you can get a feel how the more complex robot systems work.

I belive shabaz has plans for a nice system so keep an eye out over the next few months
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0 Problemchild over 11 years ago

Hi there Keith, it's always hard to recommend a particular course of action with out knowing the capabilities and prior knowledge of your son.
Assuming he currently knows little but is willing to learn I would say that the first task is to learn a programming language any will do but Python is particularly well supported on the 'PI.
Once you are somewhat familiar with the basics I would then take the step of trying to interface some simple sensors(or at least switches and LEDs) to the Pi.
https://projects.drogon.net/raspberry-pi/gpio-examples/tux-crossing/gpio-examples-1-a-single-led/
How you do this doesn't matter there are many online tutorials .What ever suits your son is best , once you have learned simple I/O you can get a feel how the more complex robot systems work.

I belive shabaz has plans for a nice system so keep an eye out over the next few months
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