Thulana Vimukthi is an engineering student in Sri Lanka. He just uploaded an autonomous rover to GarageLab.It looks like a nice platform for learning some basics due to it's simplicity. I've been contemplating some time of rover, and I think this might be the one.
Here's the video, which I had some trouble embedding. Click through the link below for a better view.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=JYBHSKJWsCw
