What kit and what book should I buy first

i have never done any of this before so what book and what kit should i start with?

Hello,

The Parallax (http://www.parallax.com) kits seem to be popular, but we have no first-hand experience with them.

It might help if you provided some background about yourself.

- Jan

I think the “classic” introductory robot book is:
“Mobile Robots-Inspiration to Implementation”
(http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1568810970/qid=1149182271/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/103-8573678-8816651?s=books&v=glance&n=283155).

As jan mentioned above, Parallax makes
some good beginner robots kits.
Best of all, you can download their
textbooks for free.
I think these two are good:

http://www.parallax.com/dl/docs/books/edu/Roboticsv2_2.pdf

http://www.parallax.com/dl/docs/prod/sic/AppliedSumo-v1.0.pdf

HTH :slight_smile: