Hi all,
I'm starting a similar project for my students... (16-year old, no knowlegde in IT for now...located in Antwerp, Belgium)
Starting from scratch as they don't have any knowledge of electronics what so ever.
I found this: http://electronics.flosscience.com/ to explain them the basics of electronics combined with the arduino board.
I'm a hardware instructor, and this will be the first time i'm going to tackle the arduino-robot project.
My goal is to create a simple autonomous robot with my students and i've got half a schoolyear time to get to that.
Starting in January... buying Arduino kits next week.
Hope we can all learn from this forum topic... looks promissing
Regards and success