Friday, January 5, 2007

The first batch of robot-parts have arrived!

Happy days! I received the shipment from www.microchipdirect.com this morning. This contains the ICD2 programmer/debugger and miscellaneous PIC microcontrollers.

The packages:
The goodies:

Not too exciting to look at for most people, I guess, but I'm looking forward to playing with it:-)

One or more of the microcontrollers will act as the brain of my beer-fetching robot. I'm still waiting for another shipment of parts (from www.sparkfun.com), which will contain sensor-, motor-driver and radio components. But I have enough to keep me occupied for a long time already, since I have never programmed a PIC microcontroller before. I also have to build the robot's body, but that will probably be the easiest part (I have a black belt in lego :-)

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