Thread: Recommendations for purchases
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Re: Recommendations for purchases
I'm not sure if you strictly wanted to stick with prepacked robotics kits or how deep you wanted to get into certain parts of engineering...

As an (almost graduated) Electrical Engineer, I'd recommend a few PIC micro programmers (I have a PICKit2 that works really well with a ZIF socket, you may want to look into a PICKit3 or similar), a bunch of PICs, several breadboards, wire sets, resistor kits, capacitor kits, along with standard gate logic, potentiometers, push buttons, and lots of LEDs. Simple things that blink and respond to simple user input usually spark interest in electrical engineering.

If you wanted to get real deep you could pick up a bunch of high powered MOSFETs and let them make their own speed controllers (although this wouldn't have much of a FRC application).
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