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What about UNO make it so exciting?

Is it wise to use an Arduino UNO to make a robot?

  • Robot might be a mobile robot probably a line follower. If not, what better options as in opensource platforms you would suggest me or what better categories of robots I could think of?

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    As you mentioned that you want to make a very simple robot like a line follower, an arduino UNO might me the best microcontroller for it. It is considerably cheap and for a beginner, really very easy to get started on. In almost no time you can learn to write your first blink sketch and after some more fiddling around you can learn to code for your robot too. Also the uno hs enough pins to allow you to expand you project, e.g you want to add obstacle avoidance capabilities to your robot, just add a distance sensor and you are ready to go. The arduino has a large community online so you can get help in no time if you get stuck somewhere.  So interfacing with sensors can be easy as you can always get someone else's code to refer.

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An Arduino is perfectly fine for creating a simple robot like a line follower.

Syed Ibtisam Tauhidi

Well "Robots" is a huge field with endless possible variants. Using a Uno or any other micro-controller based variant would depend on the type of bot that you want to make. Uno, since it hosts a very basic controller will be a great option to work with , but only if you want to work on basic robots like Line followers based robots or Robotic arms(Servo based). Arduino will help you a lot to get started off with interfacing basic sensors like light, sound, temp ,ultrasonic,etc. But as you proceed with it. it will sound very basic , so u can go ahead later on with higher end Boards with better controller/computer. You can opt for Atmega 328 and 168. Well.. Umm.. after a series of projects with these controllers. One can move to  better Development boards like Raspberry Pi or BeagleBone that will host ARM based processors and will help you to deal with Higher End computing, image processing and a better side of sensors and peripherals. I am specifically suggesting you these boards because you emphasized on Open Source Based hardware which is easy to get along with. And as far as suggesting the projects is concerned ! One you get along with this hardware. You will find endless possibilities of pursuing projects(Can be based on anything) This is Pi . Here is a link on more specifications of Pi. @http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raspberry_Pi%C3%A2%C2%80%C2%8E Beagle Bone: You can find Details regarding BeagleBone : @http://www.element14.com/Community%C3%A2%C2%80%C2%8E

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