educational robot kit?

[gondorf]

is the educational robotics kit the same thing as the kitbot for first?

if so then that robot is a very stange but easy one to build.

i learned from it

[Vince lau]

the VEX robot kit is probably the closest you'll find

[gondorf]

cool i have a vex robot kit at home

these were my first exposures to robotics

[Nitroxextreme]

The Edu-bot (aka Robovations) was pre vex and pretty much opened up the way for vex. The motors are very similar with the exception of the clutch and the mini-RC and Vex controller do basically the same functions.

[Booger]

vex are very good to start with. My team has a jv vex program that is pretty good. It gets the freshman aquinted with robotics