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 johnbeetem over 11 years ago

I've used RasPi a lot, but not for robotics, so YMMV. But I would suggest starting with some of the RasPi motor control projects at Adafruit: https://learn.adafruit.com/category/raspberry-pi

I suspect the parts costs for these projects are pretty low, especially if you salvage motors from dead printers.

Then if he's still interested, give him a budget and let him select his own parts.
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0 johnbeetem over 11 years ago

I've used RasPi a lot, but not for robotics, so YMMV. But I would suggest starting with some of the RasPi motor control projects at Adafruit: https://learn.adafruit.com/category/raspberry-pi

I suspect the parts costs for these projects are pretty low, especially if you salvage motors from dead printers.

Then if he's still interested, give him a budget and let him select his own parts.
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0 Problemchild over 11 years ago in reply to johnbeetem

The kits ment for Arduinos often have cheap motors and stuff and are an accessible way of getting parts.

Scraping printers etc as John Says is an excellent way of learning and getting some very nice parts ..sometimes they are abit hard to identify however but most of the time you are all right!
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