Hi Matthew,
I would recommend Johnny-Five:
http://johnny-five.io/

They have some good books on it too referenced from the site. I built a simple robot with this, an arduino, and a pee-wee rover kit.  Here it is racing another bot:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-bw9VTOnBs

Best of luck,
Shaun

On Dec 3, 2015, at 11:16 AM, Matthew Kopel <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>> wrote:

Hello All,

I'm on the hunt for open resources for teaching robotics, setting up
robotics-related library programming, guides for what to buy, what the best
resources are, what the most inexpensive resources are, and anything else
that the code4lib hive mind thinks might be useful!

Many Thanks,

Matthew


Matthew Kopel
Library Services Manager, CLRC
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