The missing link in my master plan.

Despite the risk of initiating a Singularity Event, one of my ultimate goal in self educating in electronics and embedded design and programming is to make robots. Not just robots for the sake of robotdom, but robots that are useful in everyday life.

I'm not sure I have figured out in what way I want my first robot to be useful, but I think I now have enough of an idea formed albeit vauge of what tech I want to use.

I just got this slice of nerd heaven from FedEx this morning:

Ez430 Chronos

It's got a 433 Mhz Transceiver in it, and a TI MSP 430 microcontroller, among other things.

Anyways, I decided it will serve as a "Command and Control" for my first robot. I will also use one of my LPC22XX boards running .Net Microframework as the high level "brain" for the bot.

Now to find  use for it :)

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