Robotic Arms are Expensive!

Well, if truth be known, I have finally come to the conclusion that robotic arms are expensive. By the time that you get around to ordering clamps, hardware, tubing, servos, claws, etc. you have dropped quite a bundle of money. I am still trying to decide how to proceed. Maybe I am itching to get into this too much. I really should wait on the information about the KIPR Open challenge which should come out in the early fall. I am really looking forward to that. I should probably settle on some preliminary things to add to the iRobot Create and get the robot working first. Let's see: Chumby, iRobot Create, camera, pan/tilt unit. Ok, maybe I should order up first a camera and a pan/tilt unit and get used to using those items. That might get me by for a little while. Chumby Lithium batteries should be in today. Battery charger by next week.