I am pretty new to the world of Arduino (this will be my first project) … has anyone had any experience with the kit I have purchased? Also, any idea how to enable Arduino to send data from sensor to an external system (for my project, I need this robotic car to send temperature reading every 5 mins to an application) …
This actually looks like a pretty nice kit. Then again, you did jump into the deep end of the pool. The manual is not bad if you already have Arduino up and running, but if you don’t the (partially) translated instructions might not be detailed enough. I suggest that you get another Arduino starter kit (one with a manual written by English speakers) to start with. The SparkFun Inventor’s Kit (SIK) is one such. If nothing else, go to the SIK product page and download the manual. Follow the instructions in the manual to get Arduino loaded and running. Or as one commenter on the robot car page said, view some of the gazillion YouTube videos about starting with Arduino.
As for sending temperature that is fairly easy. The Bluetooth connection is really just serial over Bluetooth so you just “print” the temperature to the Bluetooth port. The hard part will be receiving the information and doing anything with it. Can you write code for your smartphone? That’s what the BT interface is set up to connect to. It doesn’t have to be a smartphone, but if not what are you sending to? Unless you have something listening specifically for the temperature it’s not going to be received or displayed once received.
Again, this seems to be a good kit built for someone with a moderate amount of mechanical and Arduino knowledge. If you are really starting from little or no knowledge then you should probably start with something more fundamental and save the kit until you have a bit more experience.
Regardless of how you proceed, you have a lot of fun learning ahead of you. Good luck!