Welcome to the RobotShop Grand Tutorial: How to Make a Robot, a series of 10 lessons that will teach you the principles behind making your own custom robot. A "robot" does not necessarily need to be fully autonomous, and having some human input, or providing a human with output is often very beneficial, and this lessons covers various ways of communicating with your robotic creation. Once completed, you can move on to the next tutorial - Using Sensors.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://community.robotshop.com/index.php/tutorials/show/how-to-make-a-robot-lesson-6-controlling-your-robot