I last built a robot 30 years ago It was named Forbin and was designed to be autonomous (as far as was possible 30 years ago) - it could detect sound and light, follow a track and a buried guide wire, avoid obstacles and talk as it wandered the room - I was proud to bits of it!

Then having a life got in the way :(

However, I was so enthused when I saw what DJ and his team have done with ARC that I'm now jumping in again and am currently building Forbin 2. I'm shortcutting/cheating to getting to the stage where I have a flexible robot platform that I can get doing specific challenges, so I've bought the Lynxmotion Johnny 5 kit, stripped out the electronics, interfaced it to EZ-B and added pan and tilt motion tracking, mp3 trigger, etc. - I'll post videos and code soon if anyone is interested

The basis for future delvelopments will be a series of challenges to be solved by Forbin 2 through either hardware or software...one the of the earliest is to be able to pour my long-suffering wife a glass of wine (I kid you not, it's one of my design criteria!)

Thank you already to the forum for making me feel welcome and for helping me over some newbie problems