Electronic/Robotic parts

Ok, this is going to be a bit off topic, but am sure someone here on this group can send me to the right place.

I have a small company where I put together these little kits. Multiple items into plastic bags.

Now with my programming experience I am sure I can handle the software end, but I need to find the hardware that will hook up to a regular PC, which I can control via C?

So where can I go looking for this stuff? Mechanical grabbing arms, preferably with some type of electrical sensor so it knows if it grabbed something, electric eye censors, cutters, etc.

Surely I can do this???????

Any helpful direction pointing would be so much appreciated.

Thanks ahead

Reply to
Daniel Kaplan
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and just keep on Googling!

Reply to
Charles Schuler

Why use C? Visual Basic Express is free and just as fast if you use a PC as the controller.

Reply to
Homer J Simpson

Does Visual Basic Express (whatever that is) run under Linux?

There are a lot of good reas>

Reply to
M Berger

No. Although it could if someone wrote a new IL interpreter.

There are reasons for all choices.

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Homer J Simpson

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