Yeah! I've always enjoyed watching people build simple robots too. Watched a lot such videos on youtube and saw a lot of pics of articles on instructables.com. I mentioned 'saw pics' instead of saying reading articles because I dont understand what that guy is really saying... some OMAP3 some 7689 whatever. Really wanted to learn things.

I'm downloading the Intro to Robotics course video lectures from the SEE site at http://see.stanford.edu

I just took a quick look at the descriptions mentioned below the video lectures. Every lecture seems to be teaching some theory. I would enjoy the theory part. But would be more interesting to build something as I learn. Maybe be something simple like a motor programmed to move straight, backward and make turns :)

Anyway, I found this link from the youtube video I watched http://www.societyofrobots.com It's got no basics, but just enjoy the pics and videos if you don't understand(like me).

Got my up-vote as well. Let's see some answers!