@Josh - I researched robotics with every moment of my spare time for about 2-3 weeks before discovering EZ-Robot. I started looking at arduino because of a TED Talk I saw and stumbled across the ezb platform. Budget was a big concern and I found that not only was ez complete was the cheapest in the long run, it offered more features out of the box and ready to go. Then after reading the forums and seeing that some people, how have worked most of their lives in robotics, gave it such a high praise, going ez for a beginner like me was a no-brainer. To quote Josh, ezb ftw :)