I am assuming since you are interested in ROS, you are running some flavor of Linux already, thats step one. What I did to get started with ROS was actually use ROS and a Parallax Boe-Bot. I bought a Blue-SMIRF bluetooth modem from sparkfun electronics but I don't know how available their products are to you since you live in Australia. I wrote a simple program for the basic stamp (parallax's controller) to send sensor data and accept motion data to/from my laptop over Bluetooth. I wrote a wrapper that then resided on the PC and I was running ROS on the PC, but it was controlling the little robot.
Hello,I'd like to start playing with some robot hardware integrating ROSI have some electronic and programming skillsAre their any simple cheap development kits out therePlease note that I do live in Australia and certain products may not be available or costly to import
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Chris
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