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When I was in High School I used to work with the MIT 6.270 Robotics Kits in a Robotics class I both took and then later was a TA for. I loved those kits, they had an embedded controller you could program in C-code, and you built the robots using legos.

6.270 Board

Is there anywhere I can purchase one of these boards? I see that I get one if I become a Gold supporter of the 6.270 but I don't have a spare $10,000 at the moment...

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Why don't you just buy a LEGO RCX or NXT set? They're exactly what you're searching...

http://mindstorms.lego.com/en-us/Default.aspx

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lego_Mindstorms

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  • \$\begingroup\$ I was unaware I could program a Mindstorms kit in C. I thought it had to be their proprietary language... or Java. Last time I used a Mindstorms kit was 10 years ago though... \$\endgroup\$
    – Josh
    Commented Mar 2, 2011 at 23:21
  • \$\begingroup\$ RCX had its own linux distribution, with toolchain and whatever. LegOS was its name, IIRC. Something similar exists for NXT, but I have not yet tried it: lejos-osek.sourceforge.net \$\endgroup\$
    – Axeman
    Commented Mar 3, 2011 at 9:00

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