[SWLUG] robot suggestions

[Justin Mitchell]

On Tue, 2011-12-13 at 15:03 +0000, Mark Summerfield wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm thinking of buying some kind of small robot to learn about
> programming it to walk, avoid, recognize, etc., the usual stuff.
> 
> I'm a software person so don't want to solder or anything like that,
> and ideally I'd like to program it from Linux using a language I'm
> familiar with (e.g., C++ or Python).
> 
> I've read a bit about the Lego NXT 2 and wondered if anyone had
> suggestions on this?

This site came up the other day: http://www.tinkerforge.com/

There are also loads of Arduino based robotics kits.

stuff like that will keep the soldering to an absolute minimum.