How to make a simple robot by a Ist year engineering student if he hadnt done it earlier?
What you have to do is to get a “robotic kit”, which is a set with all you need to make robots. There are many, but for the beginner nothing can beat the Lego Mindstorms NXT. You can build any robot you can imagine with this kit. You can also “program” (tell the robot what to do) in many different languages, including engineering language as C and Java or easy to learn languages as the one which comes with the kit. Because the “Lego” brand you should not think this is a toy for kids. Lego Mindstorms NTX is a “state of the art” piece of engineering but still easy to use. You can have a working robot in less than 30 minutes after you receive your kit. It comes with detailed instructions on how to built many different test robots. Lego Mindstorms has thousands of users around the world so you will find a lot of information and projects about it in the Internet. Also you can find a lot of books about it. Check the following site: http://
