A new update in the project.
The mailman arrived with a tiny pcb board that will control the steppers via usb interface.
Spent a whole day searching around my town for the components to mount it but christmas dates aren't good for electronics ;).

here are some new pics:

EfikaBot photos

still missing three L293E and sockets to finish the board and start fiddling with the microcontroller code.So far so good i'm left with no money, so planning software part from now.The missing pieces to complete this puzzle are:

-12V battery.
-picoPSU, too expensive to buy right now, will have to test the thing with a standard ATX psu.
-an old usb webcam, preferrably one widely supported by linux.
compactflash-ide adaptor, haven't found anything locally yet.
-wireless pci card,prism2 alike or anything that works under linux.a pci riser would be very welcome.
optional addons:
-an old microphone.Just because ;)
-small audio amplifier circuit to allow it to speak.

I accept old/unused hardware donations to finish it faster ;)

Next week i should start shaping out the chassis.