Favorite affordable (<$200) beginner robotics kits?

Played around with Arduino a bit in the past, and Mindstorm, and a little vex.

How deep into embedded do you want to go?

@PRein just starting out, so I'm looking to just get a decent understanding of using sensor input to achieve a goal procedurally. I'm looking to use a microcontroller of some sort. And no or minimal soldering preferably!

@PRein so deep Leonardo DiCaprio doesn't want to go any farther

You can get a raspberry pi and buy any sensors you like.

On AliExpress there are some 20$ Arduino kits with a big bunch of sensors. Some soldering is required for pin headers, but that's it. They come from China and take a month or two to arrive (unless you pay a lot for EMS shipping), but it's worth the wait!

Pololou.

The cheaper they are the harder you work on them. The overpriced stuff usually has neat documentation at least. The arduino knockoffs work fine.. just that I can't stand the default IDE for it.