Ok so i've been interested in robotics for a while and had a project in mind. Building a small remote controlled vehicle-robot/ unmanned vehicle-robot. Hopefully with the ability to read in data from sensory devices(gps,thermometer etc) and write the data to some kind of device. The idea(s) had been on the backburner for a while until i just read the following article.
So my question is this. Where should I begin. I have absolutely no experience in this at all other than a few google searches and my project idea. I would like to play around with programming the micro controller boards. I know some java .net languages and some C.
Any help on where to begin?
How do you design the robot, what steps do you go through from start to finish.
Thanks.