Essential Topic for learning Bottango.
How To Get Started Building
Bottango helps you control a robot, but it doesn’t help you BUILD a robot! So if you’re coming entirely from square one, it’s best to take a step back, and learn a bit of the fundamentals of robot making and return to Bottango later.
One great place to start is with an Arduino starter kit. The official one from the Arduino company contains all you’d need to get a single moving servo (and more other fun projects) and also has some really great tutorials. There are more affordable alternatives, but though the physical parts themselves are likely around the same quantity and quality, the quality of the included documentation and tutorials may not be as good. You can decide which option is right for you.
Your goal is to learn how to move a servo with an Arduino WITHOUT Bottango. Once you understand enough to get a single servo moving, then you can add Bottango in, and animate that servo with Bottango. You can use Bottango to craft a custom animation for your servo, synchronize it with sound, etc.
A good first project is to make a mouth open and close using a single servo, and to animate it along with some audio of speech. Once you’ve gotten that far, you’re off to the races, and can keep building on what you’ve learned. Good luck!