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Hi,

I'm designing and building a mobile robot, however I have to find / design a circuit board that incorporates two motor outputs, and possibly 8-12 sensors. The circuit also has to be a PIC, to allow me to program the robot to carry out specific tasks autonomously.

I have 0% knowledge on circuitry design, so if anyone could lead me in the correct direction of how I would design something of this spec, or even show me what current circuit boards currently exist that fit my needs.

Thanks.
 
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You don't say how large. This kit is kinda nice and there are parts of interest here too:
http://www.junun.org/MarkIII/Store.jsp

I have some little cars of about the same size, using the same motor technology, based on mica2 'sensor net' controllers from memsic.com which have two way radios and a really torturous "tinyos" programming system:
http://memsic.com/products/wireless-sensor-networks/wireless-modules.html
But I haven't posted very much documentation...just a tad here:
http://www.etantdonnes.com/ROBOCAR/Collective/robocars.html